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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing The ultimate defense against complex organized threats and attacks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395070
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael McPhee Michael McPhee
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Preface 1. Common Web Applications and Architectures FREE CHAPTER 2. Guidelines for Preparation and Testing 3. Stalking Prey Through Target Recon 4. Scanning for Vulnerabilities with Arachni 5. Proxy Operations with OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite 6. Infiltrating Sessions via Cross-Site Scripting 7. Injection and Overflow Testing 8. Exploiting Trust Through Cryptography Testing 9. Stress Testing Authentication and Session Management 10. Launching Client-Side Attacks 11. Breaking the Application Logic 12. Educating the Customer and Finishing Up

Going beyond persuasion – Injecting for execution

Ok, so we're done playing nice. Maybe an attacker has decided a website has nothing of value to them, but they want to deny its functions to legitimate users nonetheless. Maybe they are after this application and want to bring it down and render the application owner helpless. Or worse yet, maybe they are just using this site to get to another one, and in compromising the application they hope to impact or laterally move to another. Whatever the motives, one class of injection attacks looks beyond convincing the application to cough up its secrets; they instead look to convince the server to run new code or execute commands that the application's developers had no intention of using or allowing.

We need to be able to find these attacks before the bad guys do. Data leakage is a huge concern, no doubt, but a complete...

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