05/01/2007

German book Secure Web Applications - Basics, vulnerabilities and countermeasures, published by VDM Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8364-0902-5, 168 pages,
Paperback, EUR 49.00, CHF 79.00
Get a copy at

Thalia.at (Austria)

Stauffacher.ch (Switzerland)

Noord Nederlandsche Boekhandel (Netherlands)

Webster.it (Italy)

Kinokuniya BookWeb (Japan)

07/16/2003

"Web security - Angriffsmethoden und ihre Folgen" in PHP Magazin.
Edition #5, 2003. Pages 52-57 Topic of this article are different kinds of attacks (static/dynamic attack) and the related attack procedures. It presents typical vulnerabilities in web applications, e.g. Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Session Hijacking etc. and how such flaws can be avoided.
This article is available on-line.

05/21/2003

"Datenabstraktion mal anders - Detaillierte Vorstellung des PEAR::DB-PlugIns DB_ado" in
PHP Magazin. Edition #4, 2003. Pages 88-92 In addition to the installation process the article deals with the special features of the plug-in DB_ado. This includes data access on different relational data sources (MS SQL Server®, MS Access® etc.), as well as data access and data manipulation on not relational data sources (e.g. Excel documents, XML- and text files).
Further it is described how to adjust PEAR package DB_ado to individual needs. The step-by-step example extends the plug-in by four functions supporting the XML Queries of the MS SQL Server®s among other things. The source code can be downloaded here.

10/30/2002

"PHP & COM - Software Komponenten in PHP einsetzen" in PHP Magazin.
Edition #4, 2002. Pages 36-46. Title topic of the 4th edition 2002 was: PHP & COM - Use of software components in PHP. Beside a detailed description of the Windows technology COM, a detailed conception of the PHP COM functions is provided. In particular it deals with the new features of the PHP version 4.3.0 and higher, which facilitate the use of COM events. All capacities are demonstrated and illustrated with examples.
The source code can be downloaded here.