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JavaScript Security

Learn JavaScript security to make your web applications more secure

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Eugene Liang  
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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    This book is for JavaScript developers having basic web development knowledge and also for those who want to explore the security issues that arise from the use of JavaScript. Prior knowledge of how JavaScript is used, such as for DOM manipulation or to perform Ajax operations, is assumed.

    What you will learn

    • Review the features of JavaScript and its vulnerabilities
    • Use JavaScript in tandem with Ajax RESTful APIs
    • Deal with crosssite scripting
    • Make basic GET and POST calls to an endpoint
    • Explore what crosssite forgery is and how to deal with it
    • Avoid misplaced trust in the client and explore various examples
    • Understand JavaScript phishing

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. JavaScript and the Web
    2. Secure Ajax RESTful APIs
    3. Cross Site Scripting
    4. Cross Site Forgery
    5. Misplaced Trust in Client
    6. JavaScript Phishing
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-801-3
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 112

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