Recipes on the Web Security Testing Cookbook demonstrate how developers and testers can check for web security with a major problem, while doing unit tests, regression tests, or exploratory tests. This book helps you: Obtain, install, and configure the testing tools are useful-and free-security Understand how your application communicates with users, so you can better simulate attacks in your tests Choose from a variety of methods that simulate common attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and manipulating hidden form fields to Make your tests repeated by using scripts and examples in the recipes as a starting point for automated test Do not live in fear of the midnight phone call telling you that your site has been hacked.