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As a user’s we depend on web applications on our daily life. whether at home or at work, we access them several times a day from our smart phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. We use these Web applications to pay bills, online banking, shop, social network with friends and family and many other tasks.

Governments and businesses also depend on Web applications to do business and deliver services, this comes with many risks and threats to services delivered by businesses and governments. These risks and threats range from service availability to identity theft and hacking into systems and stealing sensitive information’s because web application deliver services through the internet, that means systems are exposed to hackers who want to exploit any vulnerability in these systems to disrupt services, steal sensitive information or spy on people or businesses.

Web applications development became very easy using today’s development frameworks. It’s became easier to create a functional web application without knowing anything about security. The subject of web application security is more important today than ever before. There is a significant need for more people to understand web applications attacks in the Information technology management side, information security side and information technology operations and development side.

This book takes the readers from starting level to advanced level in discovering and exploiting web applications vulnerabilities or what technically called Web penetration testing. By teaching the readers basic tools and techniques to find and exploit web applications vulnerabilities assuming no existing knowledge, web developers can see what areas to give more attention when developing web applications. For IT security managers and IT security analysts this book will show them web applications weaknesses that need to be harden. For those who would like to start a career as web penetration tester or website bug bounty hunters, this book will take them from zero to advanced level through clear step by step instructions about how to find weaknesses and how to exploit them.