Book Review: Innocent Code: A Security Wake-Up Call for Web Programmers

By YGN Ethical Hacker Group -
The book is suitable for educate beginner-to-intermediate web developers to help understanding security issues in developing applications.

The author explained the basics of threats involved in handling user inputs, and output handling. One of the best chapters is "Chapter 8 - Rules of Secure Coding" where he provides summarized facts about secure coding and false programmer assumptions that break application security.

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