Nowadays, as many as 70 percent of websites have vulnerabilities that could lead to the theft of sensitive data of company (such as credit card information and customer info list). In particular, too many custom web applications are often not fully tested and contain a lot of undetected vulnerabilities, making them easily fall prey to hackers. There is no doubt that, the security of a website is very important, so as a website administrator, it is very necessary to conduct security penetration tests on their own servers.

More and more critical applications have been migrated to websites now. Meanwhile, the security of these apps have become a major challenge to all kinds of institutions. Know yourself as well as the enemy, so that you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat. Similarly, only by understanding the exploitable vulnerabilities exist in web applications and the attack methods adopted by web attackers, we can more effectively ensure the safety of our web apps.

The Database Hacker's Handbook is another top-quality book after The Shellcoder's Handbook, in which 4 world's top security experts will teach you how to intrude and defend 7 kinds of today's most popular database servers hand by hand. Moreover, you will deeply learn how to use active defense against invasion.