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Learning Python Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from Learning Python Web Penetration Testing Automate web penetration testing activities using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789533972

Length 138 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Christian Martorella

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing

2. Interacting with Web Applications FREE CHAPTER

3. Web Crawling with Scrapy – Mapping the Application

4. Resources Discovery

5. Password Testing

6. Detecting and Exploiting SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

7. Intercepting HTTP Requests

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Preface

Welcome to learning Python web penetration testing!

In this book, we'll learn the penetration testing process and see how to write our own tools.

You will leverage the simplicity of Python and available libraries to build your own web application security testing tools. The goal of this book is to show you how you can use Python to automate most of the web application penetration testing activities.

I hope you now have a complete grip of what's to come, and that you're as excited as I am.

So then, let's get started on this wonderful journey.

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Authors (1)

Christian Martorella

Christian Martorella

Christian Martorella has been working in the field of information security for the last 18 years and is currently leading the product security team for Skyscanner. Earlier, he was the principal program manager in the Skype product security team at Microsoft. His current focus is security engineering and automation. He has contributed to open source security testing tools such as Wfuzz, theHarvester, and Metagoofil, all included in Kali, the penetration testing Linux distribution.

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