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

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

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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.
  • 1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications
  • 2. Setting Up Your Lab with Kali Linux
  • 3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server
  • 4. Authentication and Session Management Flaws
  • 5. Attacking the Server Using Injection-based Flaws
  • 6. Finding and Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities
  • 7. Exploiting Cross Site Request Forgery
  • 8. Attacking Cryptographic implementation flaws
  • 9. AJAX, HTML5 and client side attacks
  • 10. Fuzzing Web Applications
  • 11. Using Automated Scanners on Web Applications
  • Title: Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux. Explore the methods and tools of ethical hacking with Kali Linux - Third Edition
  • Author: Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari
  • Original title: Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux. Explore the methods and tools of ethical hacking with Kali Linux - Third Edition
  • ISBN: 9781788623803, 9781788623803
  • Date of issue: 2018-02-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_156t
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing