CNIT 129S: Securing Web Applications
Moved to SCIE 37Spring 2019 -- Sam BowneSchedule · Lecture Notes · Projects · Links · Home Page |
Course JustificationIndustry advisors have repeatedly asked us to teach this class, because every modern business needs a web presence and there are far too few workers qualified to protect them from hackers. There are many jobs available for students who learn how to protect our healthcare, financial, and other confidential data from criminals, spies, and pranksters. Catalog DescriptionTechniques used by attackers to breach Web applications, and how to protect them. How to secure authentication, access, databases, and back-end components. How to protect users from each other. How to find common vulnerabilities in compiled code and source code. Major Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: Textbook"The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws 2nd Edition", by Dafydd Stuttard , Marcus Pinto; ISBN-10: 1118026470 Buy from Amazon QuizzesThe quizzes are multiple-choice, online, and open-book. Study the textbook chapter and take the quiz before that class. Each quiz is due 30 min. before class. Each quiz has 5 questions, you have ten minutes to take it, and you can make two attempts. Live StreamingLive stream at: https://zoom.us/j/4108472927 |
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Date | Quiz | Topic | |||
Mon 1-14 | Ch 1: Web Application (In)security Ch 2: Core Defense Mechanisms
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Mon 1-21 | Holiday - No Class | ||||
Mon 1-28 | Quiz Ch 1-2 * Proj 1 due |
Ch 3: Web Application Technologies
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Fri 2-1 | Last Day to Add Classes | ||||
Mon 2-4 | Quiz Ch 3 * Proj 2 due |
Ch 3: Web Application Technologies (continued)
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Mon 2-11 | Quiz: Ch 4 * | Ch 4: Mapping the Application
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Mon 2-18 | Holiday - No Class | ||||
Mon 2-25 | Quiz Ch 5 * Proj 3 & 5 & 6 due |
Ch 5: Bypassing Client-Side Controls
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Mon 3-4 | Quiz: Ch 6 * | Ch 6: Attacking Authentication
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Mon 3-11 | Quiz: Ch 7 * Proj 7 & 8 due |
Ch 7: Attacking Session Management
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Mon 3-18 | Quiz: Ch 8 * Proj 9 & 10 due |
Ch 8: Attacking Access Controls Ch 9: Attacking Data Stores (Part 1)
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Mon 3-25 | Holiday - No Class | ||||
Mon 4-1 | Quiz Ch 9 * Proj 11 due |
Ch 9: Attacking Data Stores
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Mon 4-8 | Quiz: Ch 10 * | Ch 10: Attacking Back-End Components
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Mon 4-15 | Quiz: Ch 11 * Proj 12 due |
Ch 11: Attacking Application Logic
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Mon 4-22 | Quiz Ch 12 * Proj 13 & 14 due |
Ch 12: Attacking Users: Cross-Site Scripting
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Mon 4-29 | No Quiz Proj 15 Due |
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Mon 5-6 | Quiz Ch 13 * Proj 16 & 17 due |
Ch 13: Attacking Users: Other Techniques (Part 1)
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Mon 5-13 | No Quiz All Extra Credit Proj Due |
Last Class Ch 13: Attacking Users: Other Techniques (Part 2)
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Wed 5-15 - Wed 5-22 |
Final Exam available online throughout the week. You can only take it once. | ||||
* Quizzes due 30 min. before class; nothing considered late until after 2-4 |
Links |
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Links for Chapter LecturesCh 1a: Highly Secure DogfoodCh 1b: Online Voting - Follow My Vote - 100% Secure Ch 1c: Android Apps Vulnerable to Code Modification Ch 1d: Security Problems at Colleges Ch 1e: CMS Vulnerabilities are Decreasing Ch 1f: Attention SinVR users | Continuous Cyber Security | UK | Digital Interruption (Jan 17, 2018)
Ch 3a: RESTful Resource Naming
Ch 4a: Using Burp Spider
Ch 5a: HTTP ETag - Wikipedia
Ch 6a: Microsoft Passport and Windows Hello
Ch 7a: ASP.NET View State Overview
Ch 8a: IBM Knowledge Center - HTTP session manager troubleshooting tips
Ch 9a: escaping - How to escape apostrophe (') in MySql?
Ch 10a: Microsoft retires Filemon and Regmon from Sysinternals
Ch 12w: Memory Forensics: Mandiant Redline
Ch 13a: About IFRAME and clickjacking
Miscellaneous LinksXtreme Vulnerable Web Application (XVWA) -- GOOD FOR PROJECTSSQL Injection Videos - YouTube DVWA - Damn Vulnerable Web Application XVWA Reddit explaining why it exists rapid7/hackazon · GitHub OWASP Broken Web Applications Project hackazon Installation Guide.pdf OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project Hackazon -- Public hosted server! Hackazon: Stop hacking like its 1999 - Dan Kuykendall - OWASP AppSec California 2015 - YouTube Hackazon Test Site Review - CyberSecology Wikto XVWA - Xtreme Vulnerable Web Application -- SERVER TO HACK Hackazon -- SERVER TO HACK HTML "text-indent: -9999px" and holding the line Incident Response for an SEO Spammed Website Website Security: How Do Websites Get Hacked? 7 Security Measures to Protect Your Servers | DigitalOcean Stop Forum Spam -- Useful for WordPress Sites WS-Attacker · SOAP and XML attacks for web app pentesting -- USEFUL FOR PROJECTS securityheaders.io -- USEFUL INFO Security Archive - Case Study: phpbb.com Compromised (from 2009) phpBB.com Hacked in Dec. 2014 dsnextgen.com iframe hack Sfisaca.org ISACA San Francisco -- Domain is 46 years old? Google Flagged My Site as Malware Best Open Source Web Application Vulnerability Scanners - InfoSec Resources WPScan -- Vuln Scanner for Wordpress Sites How To: Use Thug Honeyclient to Investigate a Malicious Website Thug - Python low-interaction honeyclient Welcome to Thug's documentation! 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El-Sayed (the_storm) Hack I-Bank Pro -- Burp defeating authentication Google CTF -- Web Write-Ups (11/15) | Brett Buerhaus Web Application Pen-testing Tutorials With Mutillidae (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos) PHP Security: SUHOSIN Over 78% of All PHP Installs Are Insecure (from 2014) How to write insecure code - OWASP PHP Tips, Resources and Best Practices for 2015 10 Most Common Mistakes That PHP Developers Make 7 More Mistakes Commonly Made by PHP Developers 18 Critical Oversights in Web Development BApp Store: Burp Plugins PHP-CGI Exploitation by Example Remote code execution via PHP [Unserialize] PHP Object Injection - OWASP GitHub Pull Request Tutorial Wiley: Evaluation Copies and Desk Copies Secret, forbidden, black-hat technique of obtaining the textbook (DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK) My Python Mirai Honeypot Script WAHH Methodology desktop background for Web Application hackers How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates Rails SQL Injection Examples Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions UXSS on Microsoft Edge -- Adventures in a Domainless World Netgear starts patching routers affected by a critical flaw US-CERT: Stop using your remotely exploitable Netgear routers Attacking WordPress SQL Injection in Rails: Live Demonstrations How To Scan And Check A WordPress Website Security Using WPScan, Nmap, And Nikto | Unixmen Penetration Testing Your WordPress Site - WordPress Security Complete Set Of CGI-BIN Exploits and what they do Article | Hellbound Hackers INFOSEC INSTITUTE CTF - capture the flag hacking exercises Hacker101 -- Free Web App Security Class -- GOOD FOR PROJECTS Using the Requests Library in Python Amazon Cookie Re-Use Convert cURL command syntax to Python requests Reverse Engineering APIs: Coffee Meets Bagel -- Nik Patel -- Medium Attacking SSO: Common SAML Vulnerabilities and Ways to Find Them Bypassing SAML 2.0 SSO with XML Signature Attacks JavaSerialKiller: Burp extension to perform Java Deserialization Attacks Java Deserialization Attacks with Burp Marshalling Pickles by frohoff Marshalling Pickles - Chris Frohoff & Gabriel Lawrence - OWASP AppSec California 2015 - YouTube On Breaking SAML: Be Whoever You Want to Be Using XMLDecoder to execute server-side Java Code on an Restlet application (i.e. Remote Command Execution) Serialization Must Die: Act 2: XStream (Jenkins CVE-2016-0792) New Unsorted LinksThe New zANTI: Mobile Penetration & Security Analysis Toolkit -- USE FOR PROJECTSBurp Hacks for Bounty Hunters - YouTube Web Application Firewalls Reviews Ch 3m: Client-side validation Better API Penetration Testing with Postman Using OWASP ZAP GUI to scan your Applications for security OWASP API Security Top 10 Ch 4p: Google Dorks List 2019 - A Complete Cheat Sheet (New) Google Maps Platform -- Protecting API keys Find Secret API-Keys Keyfinder is a tool that let you find keys while surfing the web! 2020-03-09: REST Assured: Penetration Testing REST APIs Using Burp Suite: Part 1 Blind Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Overview - Bug Bounty Hunting GET YOUR BUG REPORT TRIAGED FASTER! - YouTube Learning path | Web Security Academy - PortSwigger GitHub - Audi-1/sqli-labs: SQLI labs to test error based, Blind boolean based, Time based. Burp Scanner - Web Vulnerability Scanner from PortSwigger 2023-05-16: Lab: Exploiting Java deserialization with Apache Commons | Web Security Academy |