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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

You're reading from   Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite Use Burp Suite and its features to inspect, detect, and exploit security vulnerabilities in your web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994064
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Riyaz Ahemed Walikar Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
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Carlos A. Lozano Carlos A. Lozano
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Preface 1. Configuring Burp Suite FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring the Client and Setting Up Mobile Devices 3. Executing an Application Penetration Test 4. Exploring the Stages of an Application Penetration Test 5. Preparing for an Application Penetration Test 6. Identifying Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite 7. Detecting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite 8. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 1 9. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 2 10. Writing Burp Suite Extensions 11. Breaking the Authentication for a Large Online Retailer 12. Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why Burp Suite? Let's cover some groundwork!

Burp Suite is a proxy and it allows you to intercept and tamper each and every request that goes from the browser to the application server. This gives the tester a huge capability to pentest all the avenues of the application, as it shows all the available endpoints. It works as a middleware. The biggest advantage it gives you is the capability to bypass client-side validations. 

It is a smart tool that keeps track of your browsing history and also manages the site structure, giving you a better picture of what is available and what the newly discovered avenues are. The core advantage of Burp is that it allows you to forward HTTP requests to different Burp tools and carry out the required task. It could be repeating or automating an attack, decoding certain parameters, or comparing two or more different requests. Burp gives...

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