You're reading from Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities with Kali Linux 2018.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788991513

Length 404 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

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To get the most out of this book

To successfully follow all of the recipes in this book, the reader is recommended to have a basic understanding of the following topics:

Linux OS installation
Unix/Linux command-line usage
HTML language
PHP web application programming

The only hardware necessary is a personal computer, preferably with Kali Linux 2.0 installed, although it may have any other operating system capable of running VirtualBox or other virtualization software. As for specifications, the recommended setup is:

Intel i5, i7, or a similar CPU
500 GB on the hard drive
8 GB on RAM
An internet connection

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Let's test the communication; we are going to ping vm_ 1 from our Kali Linux."

A block of code is set as follows:

<html>
<script>
function submit_form()
{
 document.getElementById('form1').submit();
}
</script>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<html>
<script>
function submit_form()
{
 document.getElementById('form1').submit();
}
</script>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# sudo apt-get update

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.