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Best Web Security books
7 books in our catalog cover Web Security, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for and who should skip it.
01 · 2011
The Tangled Web
A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
The deepest book ever written on the strange, accreted security model of the web browser.
Advanced5/5Michal Zalewski02 · 2023
Black Hat GraphQL
Attacking Next Generation APIs
Aleks and Farhi on attacking GraphQL specifically: introspection abuse, batching, depth and complexity attacks, auth flaws, and the differences from REST that make GraphQL pentests their own discipline.
Intermediate4/5Nick Aleks, Dolev Farhi03 · 2022
Hacking APIs
Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces
Corey Ball's structured approach to attacking REST and GraphQL APIs: enumeration, auth flaws, business logic, mass assignment, and the testing harness around them.
Intermediate4/5Corey J. Ball04 · 2021
Bug Bounty Bootcamp
The Guide to Finding and Reporting Web Vulnerabilities
Vickie Li's pragmatic walk through the bug-bounty workflow, from picking a program and recon to reporting findings that actually pay out.
Beginner4/5Vickie Li05 · 2020
Web Security for Developers
Real Threats, Practical Defense
Malcolm McDonald's developer-side primer on the OWASP-class issues, framed around real attacks and defended with code patterns rather than vendor products.
Beginner4/5Malcolm McDonald06 · 2019
Real-World Bug Hunting
A Field Guide to Web Hacking
Peter Yaworski breaks down real disclosed reports across major bug bounty programs, organized by vulnerability class, so readers can pattern-match real findings rather than learn classes from textbook examples.
Beginner4/5Peter Yaworski07 · 2011
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws
The exhaustive reference for web app pentesting, comprehensive but increasingly a historical document.
Intermediate4/5Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto