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You can’t go far as a web developer without a solid awareness of web security issues understood at the level of HTTP requests and responses. All web applications are potentially vulnerable to a familiar set of attacks—such as cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and SQL injection—but you can mitigate each of these attack vectors if you understand them clearly.
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Sanderson, S. (2010). Security and Vulnerability. In: Buckingham, E., et al. Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2887-5_15
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