Chapter 6. Web Attacks and Internet Vulnerabilities

If you are at all interested in computer and network security, you'll need to know something about the Internet, and its subset, the World Wide Web (WWW). This chapter deals with the basics of the Internet and the Web, as well as several important Internet protocols that keep the Internet humming from behind the scenes. The chapter then discusses vulnerabilities of several of these services, as well as exploits that can be used to attack them. Finally, this chapter gives several suggestions of how users can defend against those who misuse the Internet to steal or annoy.