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Learn Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Learn Penetration Testing Understand the art of penetration testing and develop your white hat hacker skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838640163
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rishalin Pillay Rishalin Pillay
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Penetration Testing 3. Getting Started with Kali Linux 4. Section 2: Exploitation
5. Performing Information Gathering 6. Mastering Social Engineering 7. Diving into the Metasploit Framework 8. Understanding Password Attacks 9. Working with Burp Suite 10. Attacking Web Applications 11. Getting Started with Wireless Attacks 12. Section 3: Post Exploitation
13. Moving Laterally and Escalating Your Privileges 14. Antivirus Evasion 15. Maintaining Control within the Environment 16. Section 4: Putting It All Together
17. Reporting and Acting on Your Findings 18. Where Do I Go from Here? 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the HTTP protocol

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a client-server protocol. The web browser is classified as the client, which makes requests to the server, who will provide a response to the request. By default, HTTP uses port 80, but this port can be configured if desired.

HTTP is stateless, which means that the server doesn't store any information related to the various users that make requests to it. For example, you can send multiple requests to a web application and they will be treated separately. HTTP is also a clear text protocol, and so any sensitive information that's sent over HTTP can be sniffed using tools such as Wireshark:

Figure 2: Clear text credentials transmitted via HTTP

SSL is used to secure the data, and the protocol that's used is Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). HTTPS operates on port 443 by default, and this...

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