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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing The ultimate defense against complex organized threats and attacks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395070
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael McPhee Michael McPhee
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Preface 1. Common Web Applications and Architectures FREE CHAPTER 2. Guidelines for Preparation and Testing 3. Stalking Prey Through Target Recon 4. Scanning for Vulnerabilities with Arachni 5. Proxy Operations with OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite 6. Infiltrating Sessions via Cross-Site Scripting 7. Injection and Overflow Testing 8. Exploiting Trust Through Cryptography Testing 9. Stress Testing Authentication and Session Management 10. Launching Client-Side Attacks 11. Breaking the Application Logic 12. Educating the Customer and Finishing Up

Why are clients so weak?

Client-focused attacks span several of the OWASP 2013 and 2017's Top 10 Threat categories. Client-side attacks using DOM-based Cross Site Scripting (XSS) are a powerful method of leveraging weaknesses in validation to embed scripts into web responses and inserting code into clients. The client-focused, DOM-based XSS can deliver code to the clients to effect compromises made on web applications, but there is a variety of vulnerabilities that hackers will exploit to reach and impact clients, such as a unvalidated redirects and forwards, websockets attacks, or clickjacking. A third category in both the 2013 and 2017 versions of the OWASP Top 10 is a vulnerability to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), which leverages victim clients as a pivot and takes advantage of their authenticated status to compromise other sites.

There are other attacks that bleed...

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