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Live From Redmond: How Hackers Reverse Engineer and Exploit an ASP.NET AJAX Application

Overview This Webcast defines how to reverse engineer and exploit an ASP.NET AJAX application. Attendees will learn how a hacker looks at the application and what information they gather from exploring the applications architecture. This webcast discusses the threat of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), what it is and how this dangerous application security defect increases the attack surface of AJAX applications making the XSS threat even more malicious.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft
Live Date	5th July 2007 01:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Application Security Tools, .NET, Application Development

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