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Hack Proofing Your Web Applications

By: Jeff Forristal

You are probably familiar with the attacks of February 2000 on eBay, Yahoo,Amazon, as well as other major e-commerce and non–e-commerce Web sites.Those attacks were all Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and all occurred at the server level.Those same attacks moved hacking to center stage in the IT community and in the press. With that spotlight comes an increased awareness by information security specialists, project managers, and other IT professionals. More and more companies are looking to tighten up security.As a result, hackers have become more creative and more talented, raising the bar on security from not only a network administration standpoint, but also from an applications developmen...