Injection Attacks Course

An overview of several common injection attacks and how to mitigate them with validation and encoding.

32 minutes

Course description

This course provides a demonstration of several SQL injection attacks and the special characters required to make them possible. It includes an overview of other attacks such as XML, XPath and LDAP. In this course, you'll also practice encoding techniques and discuss how they are used to neutralize server-side injection attacks.

Syllabus

Output Encoding

Video - 00:17:00
This video explores how to encode inputs before outputting data.
Injection Attacks

Video - 00:15:00
Take a look at SQL, XML, XPath and LDAP injection attacks, plus examples of each type of attack.

Meet the author

Larry Ricker

Larry Ricker's professional experience includes development, system integration, business analysis, testing, design, technical lead, database administration, system administration, consulting, and production and project management.

He's primarily engaged in team projects for corporations and consulting work in mobile, telephony development, web development, two-factor authentication, security, SOAP and restful web services, voice recognition systems, identity verification, mobile activation and card fulfillment systems.

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