Improving your Penetration Testing Skills. Strengthen your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux and Metasploit

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh

Penetration testing (or ethical hacking) is a legal and foolproof way to identify vulnerabilities in your system. With thorough penetration testing, you can secure your system against the majority of threats.This Learning Path starts with an in-depth explanation of what hacking and penetration testing are. You’ll gain a deep understanding of classical SQL and command injection flaws, and discover ways to exploit these flaws to secure your system. You'll also learn how to create and customize payloads to evade antivirus software and bypass an organization's defenses. Whether it’s exploiting server vulnerabilities and attacking client systems, or compromising mobile phones and installing backdoors, this Learning Path will guide you through all this and more to strengthen your defense against online attacks.By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the knowledge and skills you need to invade a system and identify all its vulnerabilities.This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt books:• Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition by Juned Ahmed Ansari and Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez• Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition by Abhinav Singh , Monika Agarwal, et al.

Kali Linux. Testy penetracyjne. Wydanie III

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari

Powtarzające się przypadki masowego naruszania bezpieczeństwa informacji, nielegalnego gromadzenia danych wrażliwych o użytkownikach czy nieuprawnionego wykorzystywania systemów do dezinformacji zmuszają organizacje do uznania cyberbezpieczeństwa za swój priorytet. Z drugiej strony coraz krótszy cykl rozwojowy aplikacji i usług sieciowych, a także rosnąca liczba technologii o coraz większej złożoności sprawiają, że projektant aplikacji nie jest w stanie w pełni przetestować tworzonego oprogramowania pod kątem bezpieczeństwa. W tych warunkach rośnie rola specjalistów w dziedzinie testów bezpieczeństwa. Wśród narzędzi dla profesjonalnych pentesterów słynny system Kali Linux zasługuje na szczególną uwagę. To trzecie, uzupełnione i zaktualizowane wydanie znakomitego przewodnika dla testerów aplikacji. Wyjaśniono w nim koncepcję etycznego hakingu i testów penetracyjnych oraz omówiono narzędzia dostępne w systemie Kali Linux. Przedstawiono mechanikę klasycznych ataków, również tych z wstrzykiwaniem kodu SQL i poleceń. Bardzo dokładnie przeanalizowano kwestie kontroli danych wejściowych. Ważną część książki stanowi omówienie najnowszych problemów z warstwami kryptograficznymi w komunikacji sieciowej, a także prezentacja zautomatyzowanych fuzzerów do wykrywania potencjalnych luk i podatności w aplikacjach internetowych. Oprócz opisów poszczególnych technik ataków znalazły się tu również wskazówki dotyczące zapobiegania tym atakom i łagodzenia ich skutków. Najciekawsze zagadnienia: metodyki testów penetracyjnych i podstawowe pojęcia z tym związane klasyczne metody ataków: wstrzykiwanie kodu, ataki XSS i CSRF wykorzystywanie podatności kryptograficznych ataki file inclusion, HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) oraz wycieki informacji prowadzenie ataku ze strony klienta zautomatyzowane skanery i fuzzery Kali Linux. Sprawdź, czy na pewno jesteś bezpieczny!

Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook. Identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities with Kali Linux 2018.x - Second Edition

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

Web applications are a huge point of attack for malicious hackers and a critical area for security professionals and penetration testers to lock down and secure. Kali Linux is a Linux-based penetration testing platform that provides a broad array of testing tools, many of which can be used to execute web penetration testing. Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook gives you the skills you need to cover every stage of a penetration test – from gathering information about the system and application, to identifying vulnerabilities through manual testing. You will also cover the use of vulnerability scanners and look at basic and advanced exploitation techniques that may lead to a full system compromise. You will start by setting up a testing laboratory, exploring the latest features of tools included in Kali Linux and performing a wide range of tasks with OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite and other web proxies and security testing tools. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to use automated scanners to find security ?aws in web applications and understand how to bypass basic security controls. In the concluding chapters, you will look at what you have learned in the context of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and the top 10 web application vulnerabilities you are most likely to encounter, equipping you with the ability to combat them effectively. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills you need to identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities.

Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook. Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

Web applications are a huge point of attack for malicious hackers and a critical area for security professionals and penetration testers to lock down and secure. Kali Linux is a Linux-based penetration testing platform and operating system that provides a huge array of testing tools, many of which can be used specifically to execute web penetration testing.This book will teach you, in the form step-by-step recipes, how to detect a wide array of vulnerabilities, exploit them to analyze their consequences, and ultimately buffer attackable surfaces so applications are more secure, for you and your users.Starting from the setup of a testing laboratory, this book will give you the skills you need to cover every stage of a penetration test: from gathering information about the system and the application to identifying vulnerabilities through manual testing and the use of vulnerability scanners to both basic and advanced exploitation techniques that may lead to a full system compromise. Finally, we will put this into the context of OWASP and the top 10 web application vulnerabilities you are most likely to encounter, equipping you with the ability to combat them effectively. By the end of the book, you will have the required skills to identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities.

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux. Explore the methods and tools of ethical hacking with Kali Linux - Third Edition

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition shows you how to set up a lab, helps you understand the nature and mechanics of attacking websites, and explains classical attacks in great depth. This edition is heavily updated for the latest Kali Linux changes and the most recent attacks. Kali Linux shines when it comes to client-side attacks and fuzzing in particular.From the start of the book, you'll be given a thorough grounding in the concepts of hacking and penetration testing, and you'll see the tools used in Kali Linux that relate to web application hacking. You'll gain a deep understanding of classicalSQL, command-injection flaws, and the many ways to exploit these flaws. Web penetration testing also needs a general overview of client-side attacks, which is rounded out by a long discussion of scripting and input validation flaws.There is also an important chapter on cryptographic implementation flaws, where we discuss the most recent problems with cryptographic layers in the networking stack.The importance of these attacks cannot be overstated, and defending against them is relevant to most internet users and, of course, penetration testers.At the end of the book, you'll use an automated technique called fuzzing to identify flaws in a web application. Finally, you'll gain an understanding of web application vulnerabilities and the ways they can be exploited using the tools in Kali Linux.