Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition: Build your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux 2.0

Juned Ahmed Ansari

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eBook Nov 2015 312 pages 1st Edition

Juned Ahmed Ansari

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eBook Nov 2015 312 pages 1st Edition

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Kali Linux 2.0 is the new generation of the industry-leading BackTrack Linux penetration testing and security auditing Linux distribution. It contains several hundred tools aimed at various information security tasks such as penetration testing, forensics, and reverse engineering. At the beginning of the book, you will be introduced to the concepts of hacking and penetration testing and will get to know about the tools used in Kali Linux 2.0 that relate to web application hacking. Then, you will gain a deep understanding of SQL and command injection flaws and ways to exploit the flaws. Moving on, you will get to know more about scripting and input validation flaws, AJAX, and the security issues related to AJAX. At the end of the book, you will use an automated technique called fuzzing to be able to identify flaws in a web application. Finally, you will understand the web application vulnerabilities and the ways in which they can be exploited using the tools in Kali Linux 2.0.

Who is this book for?

If you are already working as a network penetration tester and want to expand your knowledge of web application hacking, then this book tailored for you. Those who are interested in learning more about the Kali Sana tools that are used to test web applications will find this book a thoroughly useful and interesting guide.

What you will learn

Set up your lab with Kali Linux 2.0
Identify the difference between hacking a web application and network hacking
Understand the different techniques used to identify the flavor of web applications
Expose vulnerabilities present in web servers and their applications using serverside attacks
Use SQL and crosssite scripting (XSS) attacks
Check for XSS flaws using the burp suite proxy
Find out about the mitigation techniques used to negate the effects of the Injection and Blind SQL attacks

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ryan Mar 09, 2016

This is a very thorough book. Plenty of examples of everything. Each idea and point is explained extremely well too. I could not be happier with this. It certainly has allowed me to expand my horizon in the security field.

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Perry Nally Jan 19, 2016

Great read. If you are new to either web penetration testing or kali linux, you'll learn a ton of very useful tools and techniques on how to determine hack-ability of a website. If you're not new to this, you'll be able to use this book as a great reference. YOu get tons of info and how-to's for each vulnerability. You get right to the nitty-gritty. The author attempt to help you get into the mind set of a person who would hack your site which helps to determine the various attack vectors. There were a few vectors mentioned that I did not think of, including some very useful shortcuts along the way. You could never really say this type of book is ever really "complete", but this is the most complete book I've read on the subject to date. Highly recommend it if you are on the fence.

NG CHING WA (HotMail) Jan 13, 2016

This is very structural for both beginner and advanced forensic practitioners. There are detailed working steps to guide reader in applying Kali Linux in Penetration Test...Daniel

Hugo Dec 22, 2015

I liked this book because the author gives a good immersion on the theme, he introduces about the ecosystem of web applications, the needs of security, the structure, major flaws and the possible attackers. The steps to execute the penetration test are crucial and he presented the points that you need to carry on, exploring the flaws with the possible doors and the best tools. Security technology is an activity where you can never stop, you have to have caution and your team prepared to solve the flaws fast as possible.This book makes me understand what I need to do, what is more important, this subject is so dynamic that you never feel totally comfortable to deal with, but now I can see what an efficient pen test is like. So this book delivers what it promises and I would recommend for anyone who work or are interested on this topic, this book is very worthwhile.

Xilobyte6 Feb 17, 2017

The author makes a good attempt at explaining the different tools. One will need to read this book though several times to be able to formulate a standardise plan. Upon rereading it, you find that some of these tools and modules do not even exist in a default Kali install nor is there any method in the book to acquire them. So this data is extremely important to include if you are going to talk about a particular module. Next, going from pages 82-84, there is a jump in context. We are reading about nmap and such one moment then all of a sudden we have jumped into the middle of another framework. Something has been edited out here. If I compare this book to other similar books that I am reading at the same time on this same subject, I would say, move on to another book instead. This one is simply trying to cover way too much with not enough effort. All they had to do was leave the book on the table a little long and develop it more.

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