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Becoming the Hacker

You're reading from Becoming the Hacker The Playbook for Getting Inside the Mind of the Attacker

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788627962

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Web Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Adrian Pruteanu

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Attacking Web Applications FREE CHAPTER

2. Efficient Discovery

3. Low-Hanging Fruit

4. Advanced Brute-forcing

5. File Inclusion Attacks

6. Out-of-Band Exploitation

7. Automated Testing

8. Bad Serialization

9. Practical Client-Side Attacks

10. Practical Server-Side Attacks

11. Attacking APIs

12. Attacking CMS

13. Breaking Containers

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Index

Resources

Consult the following resources for more information on penetration testing tools and techniques:

Penetration Testers Framework (PTF): https://github.com/trustedsec/ptf
BlackArch: https://blackarch.org
Burp Suite: https://portswigger.net/burp/
OWASP ZAP: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
Microsoft Azure: https://portal.azure.com
Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com
DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com
Linode: https://www.linode.com

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Authors (1)

Adrian Pruteanu

Adrian Pruteanu

Adrian Pruteanu is an accomplished security consultant and researcher working primarily in the offensive security space. In his career of over 10 years, he has gone through countless penetration testing engagements, red team exercises, and application security assessments. He routinely works with Fortune 500 companies, helping them secure their systems by identifying vulnerabilities or reversing malware samples. Adrian likes to keep up with his certifications as well, and holds several of them, including CISSP, OSCE, OSCP, GXPN, GREM, and a bunch of Microsoft titles as well. As a certified trainer for Microsoft, he has also delivered custom training in the past to various clients. In his spare time, Adrian likes to develop new tools and software to aide with penetration testing efforts or just to keep users safe online. He may occasionally go after a bug bounty or two, and he likes to spend time researching and (responsibly) disclosing vulnerabilities.

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