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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344202
Pages 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Joe Marshall Joe Marshall
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Joseph Marshall is a web application developer and freelance writer with credits from The Atlantic, Kirkus Review, and the SXSW film blog. He also enjoys moonlighting as a freelance security researcher, working with third-party vulnerability marketplaces such as Bugcrowd and HackerOne. His background and education include expertise in development, nonfiction writing, linguistics, and instruction/teaching. He lives in Austin, TX.
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Himanshu Sharma, 23, has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many more with hall of fame listings as proofs. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills and contribution to the hacking community. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts, and also assisted an international singer in tracking down his hacked account and recovering it. He was a speaker at the international conference Botconf '13, held in Nantes, France. He also spoke at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia as well as for TedX. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowd-sourced security platform for ethical hackers and companies interested in cyber services.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Preface 1. Joining the Hunt 2. Choosing Your Hunting Ground 3. Preparing for an Engagement 4. Unsanitized Data – An XSS Case Study 5. SQL, Code Injection, and Scanners 6. CSRF and Insecure Session Authentication 7. Detecting XML External Entities 8. Access Control and Security Through Obscurity 9. Framework and Application-Specific Vulnerabilities 10. Formatting Your Report 11. Other Tools 12. Other (Out of Scope) Vulnerabilities 13. Going Further 14. Assessment 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical Requirements

This chapter, like many, will rely on a unix command shell (zsh) to bootstrap and interact with programs installed via their graphical installer, a package manager (homebrew), or a tarball. It will also include several desktop apps, all of which we'll install, via similar methods, into a macOS High Sierra (10.13.2) environment. When a web browser is required, we will use Chrome (66.0.3359.139).

For some of these, there will be an explicit Windows option. In that case, the menus may look different but the available actions will be the same. When no Windows option is available, you might have to dual-boot with one of the more user-friendly Linux distros.

Tools

We'll be using a variety of tools...

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Joseph Marshall is a web application developer and freelance writer with credits from The Atlantic, Kirkus Review, and the SXSW film blog. He also enjoys moonlighting as a freelance security researcher, working with third-party vulnerability marketplaces such as Bugcrowd and HackerOne. His background and education include expertise in development, nonfiction writing, linguistics, and instruction/teaching. He lives in Austin, TX.
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Profile icon Himanshu Sharma
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Himanshu Sharma, 23, has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many more with hall of fame listings as proofs. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills and contribution to the hacking community. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts, and also assisted an international singer in tracking down his hacked account and recovering it. He was a speaker at the international conference Botconf '13, held in Nantes, France. He also spoke at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia as well as for TedX. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowd-sourced security platform for ethical hackers and companies interested in cyber services.
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