JAMES C. FOSTER

James Foster, Vincent LiuWriting Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of pages to architecture and theory based flaws and exploits, this book will dive right into deep code analysis. Previously undisclosed security research in combination with superior programming techniques will be included in both the Local and Remote Code sections of the book. The book will be accompanied with a companion Web site containing both commented and uncommented versions of the source code examples presented throughout the book. In addition to the book source code, the CD will also contain a copy of the author-developed Hacker Code Library v1.0. The Hacker Code Library will include multiple attack classes and functions that can be utilized to quickly create security programs and scripts. These classes and functions will simplify exploit and vulnerability tool development to an extent never before possible with publicly available software. * Provides readers with working code to develop and modify the most common security tools including Nmap and Nessus * Learn to reverse engineer and write exploits for various operating systems, databases, and applications * Automate reporting and analysis of security log files

Mark Burnett, James Foster Are Your Web Applications Really Secure? This unique book walks you through the many threats to your web application code, from managing and authorizing users and encrypting private data to filtering user input and securing XML. For every defined threat, it provides a menu of solutions and coding considerations. And, it offers coding examples and a set of security policies for each of the corresponding threats. Know the threats to your applications: · Develop secure password policies and how to securely manage user passwords in your web application. · Establish a secure procedure for resetting lost or forgotten passwords and discover how to properly use secret questions in that process. · Securely authenticate and authorize users, taking advantage of the advanced capabilities in ASP.NET · Limit exposure to credential harvesting and brute force password attacks. · Securely manage user sessions and learn how to create strong user authentication tokens. · Work with the built-in state providers and securely implement view state in your forms. · Make sense of the extensive encryption features in ASP.NET and employ symmetric and asymmetric encryption for sensitive data. · Properly encrypt and store secrets to the registry, a file, or the protected store. · Filter user input to prevent from SQL injection, directory traversal, cross-site scripting and other application-level attacks. · Apply techniques such as pattern matching and data reflecting to control exposure to malicious input attacks. · Configure honey drops to detect attacks on your web application · Configure IIS and ASP.NET to constrain buffer overflow, denial of service, and other attacks. · Write secure database access code. · Secure databases and database drivers. · Construct secure HTML markup to limit exposure to cross-site scripting and cross-site requ