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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Configuring the Client and Setting Up Mobile Devices

Once we have Burp Suite up and configured to act as the proxy through which all our communication will go to the target, we need to set up the clients to talk to Burp, so that the communication path is complete.

Almost all clients that can talk to HTTP/HTTPS servers have a way of setting a proxy endpoint. This tells the client that it needs to send the traffic to the proxy endpoint first, which will then forward it to the target. Different clients have different ways of setting this proxy setting. Some clients use the operating system's proxy setting to enforce the path of the traffic.

In this chapter, we shall see how we can set the proxy option for various common clients, both on mobile and traditional computing devices.

We will cover the following topics in the chapter:

  • Setting up Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer...
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