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Becoming the Hacker

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627962
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adrian Pruteanu Adrian Pruteanu
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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 Other Books You May Enjoy
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When testing a typical web application, we first configure the system proxy to point to Burp Suite. Now, all of our requests can be inspected as we walk through the app. It's easy to launch attacks because these requests are built for us by the user interface that Burp can see over the wire. During normal operation, users enter data in a search field, for example, and the application constructs the GET or POST request with all the appropriate parameters, before sending it over the wire. All of these valid requests are now available for replay, modification, and scanning through the attack proxy. The discovery process is much simpler when there is a user interface to drive traffic generation.

If there is no user interface component and all we have is an API endpoint, and some documentation to work with, it is very tedious to build a series of curl requests and manually parse the responses. If authentication is required for interaction, requesting tokens would be a nightmare for complex...

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