Books
Books
It’s rather strange for me reviewing Web Application Security - A Beginner's Guide given that I've written a book on the same topic, but as I know one of the authors, Bryan Sullivan and McGraw Hill offered me a copy for review it seems rather churlish not to. Bryan and Vincent Liu have produced a book which is technology agnostic, covering web security via principles rather than sample code. It is a complete beginner’s book, suitable for a developer who has never thought about security before or for a manager to try to figure out just what the heck...
I was a guest on two podcasts last week, just in case you’re interested. The first was RunAs radio, discussing the DigiNotar hack with Richard Campbell and its consequences for IT administrators. This was followed the next day by Developer Book Club, a rather interesting idea created by Helen Emerson where developers talk about 3 books which influenced their development careers. Technorati Tags: PodCast
You can order it from Amazon and it’s in stock. Even better because I had an American editor you’ll find a severe lack of the letter U in words and the abomination that is the Oxford Comma scattered throughout. In other news despite the continuous hobbit comments Alex Mackey, author of Introducing .NET 4.0 with VS2010 (Amazon US / Amazon UK) has reviewed the book and said nice things, all without payment! Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,Security
#1 of what will be doubtless many. Right now I’ve started to put things away, so I don’t know when I’ll have the ability to produce a proper errata to Wrox requirements, so rather than have you struggle I’m posting the correction(s) here. Listing 10-11 on page 251 is incorrect, and if ran no X509 signing certificate will be extracted, although the XML signature will be verified. The code should be as follows: public static bool VerifySignature(XmlDocument document, out X509Certificate signingCertificate)
{
// Create a new SignedXml object and load
// the signed...
A few people have been asking for the table of contents for Beginning ASP.NET Security so here it is; CHAPTER 1: WHY WEB SECURITY MATTERS Anatomy of an Attack Risks and Rewards Building Security from the Ground Up Defense in Depth ...
Last year Wrox switched from having happy, smiling, chin posing authors on their book covers to, well, to random images with a bit of red. So for those of you that have pre-ordered you’ll be happy to know that you won’t have me smiling out from your book shelf. Instead you’ll get an image which encapsulates my interest in exercise and sports. Errr, well, someone’s interest in exercise and sports. Never fear though, I am on the inside … Note for Americans – this image is from a game called football by the rest of the world. The...
So about an hour ago the last edits to the proof went off to the proof reader, which hopefully means, after a year, it’s all done. You may be pleased to learn that, as I’ve taken so long, it will be published using the new, better quality paper and will not have my mug shot on the cover. (When discovering this my smart assed nephew said “That’s good, people won’t judge the book by its cover”.) The final details are as follows: Beginning ASP.NET Security Wrox Press ISBN : 978-0470743652 Pages :...
Alex Mackey tweeted yesterday that his book was available for pre-order on Amazon so vanity got the best of me – so I checked and mine is available too. It grows ever more real and scary, although not as scary as the cover (which is now on its third iteration but I still can't convince them to use Oliver's alternative version) … Pre-order from Amazon UK Pre-order from Amazon US Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,Wrox,Vanity
I was emailed the second draft of the book cover today, which makes it scarily real. But not half as scary as what Oliver did with it. Ah the MVP community – we’re a tight bunch of nits … Technorati Tags: Wrox,Book Cover,Books,ASP.NET,Security,MVP
Well; in a few months anyway. A month or so ago I saw a tweet flit past asking for someone who has ASP.NET security knowledge; someone pointed the user my way. I assumed it was someone just asking for advice, so I sent off something along the lines of "What do you need to know?". It turns out the recipient was part of Wrox Press and he was after knowledge, on the shape of a book. So after some pondering and pointing out I thought it had been done to death we both came up with, what...