Cross Site Scripting

Cross site scripting (known as XSS) is the tool of choice for bad actors who want to hack your website. This book is the tool of choice for savvy developers who want to block cross site scripting attacks.

About This Book Cross Site Scripting: XSS Defense Made Easy is a practical guide for protecting your site and your site visitors from malicious cross site scripting attacks. Topics are explained in clear, easy-to-understand language. Key points are reinforced with real-world examples. And code is provided so you can see exactly how everything works. Who is This Book For? This book is for novice to intermediate web developers who use ASP.NET Web Forms to build websites. The book assumes beginner-level familiarity with HTML, Javascript, and a server-side coding language, like Visual Basic .NET. Why Should I Care? With cross site scripting, attackers steal private data, deface web pages, send users to dangerous sites, and perform other malicious acts. Attackers target unprotected sites. According to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), two-thirds of all web applications are vulnerable to cross site scripting. Why This Book? If you are a web developer, cross site scripting should be on your radar. You should know why it is a problem. You should know how it works. And you should know what you can do to secure your site from attack. This book checks all of those boxes.