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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991513
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux and the Testing Lab FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Using Proxies, Crawlers, and Spiders 4. Testing Authentication and Session Management 5. Cross-Site Scripting and Client-Side Attacks 6. Exploiting Injection Vulnerabilities 7. Exploiting Platform Vulnerabilities 8. Using Automated Scanners 9. Bypassing Basic Security Controls 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

So far, in this book, we have identified and exploited vulnerabilities in conditions where they could be considered low hanging fruits, that is, we knew the vulnerabilities existed, and in their exploitation, we didn't face any prevention mechanisms or had to avoid being blocked by a web application firewall or similar.

The most common scenario in a real-world penetration test is that developers have made an effort to build a robust and secure application, and vulnerabilities may not be straightforward to find and may be completely or partially addressed so they are either not present in the application, or are at least hard to find and exploit. For this scenario, we need to have in our arsenal tools that allow us to discover ways to overcome these complications and, be able to identify and exploit flaws that the developers thought they had prevented, but did...

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