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Joomla! Web Security

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Joomla! Web Security

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! Web Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Introduction


Have you ever read or heard from anyone the children's story about "The Little Red Hen"? The story goes that, once the Little Red Hen found some wheat seeds. She went to each barnyard animal asking for help from planting the seeds to watering the plants, all the way to harvesting and grinding the wheat to make bread. Each of the animals complained of not having time! Too busy!

But on the day when the Little Red Hen baked the bread in the oven for herself and her chicks, the entire barnyard smelled of it. All the animals came with happy how-are-you-buddy looks on their faces. They wanted a share of the bread. She, of course, ran them off and would not share it because they had not shared her work.

We started out with this story because many of these characters fit the multiple roles in our view of vulnerabilities.

Think about an application designer who is tirelessly working and asks for testing from some trusted customers. They refuse, but complain when bugs are discovered.

Perhaps...