E-Books →JavaScript Security Learn JavaScript security to make your web applications more secure

About This Book
- Understand the jаvascript security issues that are a result of both the frontend and the backend of a web app
- Learn to implement Security techniques to avoid cross site forgery and various jаvascript vulnerabilities.
- Secure your jаvascript environment from the ground up, with step-by-step instructions covering all major ways to tackle Security issues
Who This Book Is For
This book is for jаvascript developers having basic web development knowledge and also for those who want to explore the security issues that arise from the use of jаvascript. Prior knowledge of how jаvascript is used, such as for DOM manipulation or to perform Ajax operations, is assumed.
What You Will Learn
- Review the features of jаvascript and its vulnerabilities
- Use jаvascript in tandem with Ajax RESTful APIs
- Deal with cross-site scripting
- Make basic GET and POST calls to an endpoint
- Explore what cross-site forgery is and how to deal with it
- Avoid misplaced trust in the client and explore various examples
- Understand jаvascript phishing
In Detail
This book starts off with an introduction to jаvascript security and gives you an overview of the basic functions jаvascript can perform on the Web, both on the client side and the server side. It demonstrates a couple of ways in which RESTful APIs can be laden with security flaws. You will also create a simple RESTful server using Express.js and Node.js. You will then focus on one of the most common jаvascript security attacks, cross-site scripting, and how to prevent cross-site scripting and cross-site forgery.
Last but not least, the book covers jаvascript phishing, how it works, and ways to counter it.
By the end of this book, you will be able to identify various risks of jаvascript and how to prevent them.