awesome-web-hacking

This list is for anyone wishing to learn about web application security but do not have a starting point.

You can help by sending Pull Requests to add more information.

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Table of Contents

• Books
• Documentation
• Tools
• Cheat Sheets
• Docker
• Vulnerabilities
• Courses
• Online Hacking Demonstration Sites
• Labs
• SSL
• Security Ruby on Rails

Books

• http://www.amazon.com/The-Web-Application-Hackers-Handbook/dp/8126533404/ The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws
• http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Web-Apps-Preventing-Application/dp/159749951X/ Hacking Web Apps: Detecting and Preventing Web Application Security Problems
• http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Exposed-Web-Applications-Third/dp/0071740643/ Hacking Exposed Web Applications
• http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Injection-Attacks-Defense-Second/dp/1597499633/ SQL Injection Attacks and Defense
• http://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Web-Securing-Modern-Applications/dp/1593273886/ The Tangled WEB: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
• http://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Obfuscation-Evasion-Filters/dp/1597496049/ Web Application Obfuscation: '-/WAFs..Evasion..Filters//alert(/Obfuscation/)-'
• http://www.amazon.com/XSS-Attacks-Scripting-Exploits-Defense/dp/1597491543/ XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense
• http://www.amazon.com/Browser-Hackers-Handbook-Wade-Alcorn/dp/1118662091/ The Browser Hacker’s Handbook
• http://www.amazon.com/Basics-Web-Hacking-Techniques-Attack/dp/0124166008/ The Basics of Web Hacking: Tools and Techniques to Attack the Web
• http://www.amazon.com/Web-Penetration-Testing-Kali-Linux/dp/1782163166/ Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
• http://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Security-Beginners-Guide/dp/0071776168/ Web Application Security, A Beginner's Guide
• https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Erickson/dp/1593271441/ Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
• https://www.crypto101.io/ - Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography
• http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/ - Metasploit Unleashed
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html - Security Engineering
• https://www.feistyduck.com/library/openssl-cookbook/ - OpenSSL Cookbook
• https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography - Learn and apply cryptographic techniques.
• https://www.manning.com/books/making-sense-of-cyber-security - A guide to the key concepts, terminology, and technologies of cybersecurity perfect for anyone planning or implementing a security strategy.
• https://www.manning.com/books/cyber-security-career-guide - Kickstart a career in cyber security by learning how to adapt your existing technical and non-technical skills.
• https://www.manning.com/books/secret-key-cryptography - A book about cryptographic techniques and Secret Key methods.
• https://www.manning.com/books/application-security-program-handbook - This practical book is a one-stop guide to implementing a robust application security program.
• https://www.manning.com/books/cyber-threat-hunting - Practical guide to cyber threat hunting.
• https://nostarch.com/bug-bounty-bootcamp - Bug Bounty Bootcamp
• https://nostarch.com/hacking-apis - Hacking APIs
• https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-web-application-security - A book about building web apps that are ready for and resilient to any attack.

Documentation

• https://www.owasp.org/ - Open Web Application Security Project
• http://www.pentest-standard.org/ - Penetration Testing Execution Standard
• http://www.binary-auditing.com/ - Dr. Thorsten Schneider’s Binary Auditing
• https://appsecwiki.com/ - Application Security Wiki is an initiative to provide all Application security related resources to Security Researchers and developers at one place.
• AppSec Santa - Independent comparison of 129+ web application security tools across SAST, DAST, SCA, and more.

Tools

• https://github.com/bad-antics/nullsec-linux - NullSec Linux - Security distribution with pre-configured web application testing tools
• https://github.com/bad-antics/nullsec-webfuzz - NullSec WebFuzz - Web application fuzzing framework
• https://github.com/poszothebuilder/nextjs-security-headers-starter - Dependency-free Next.js security headers starter with CSP, HSTS, and a production verifier for CI.