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Security with Go

You're reading from   Security with Go Explore the power of Golang to secure host, web, and cloud services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627917
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karthik Gaekwad Karthik Gaekwad
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John Daniel Leon John Daniel Leon
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Introduction to Security with Go FREE CHAPTER 2. The Go Programming Language 3. Working with Files 4. Forensics 5. Packet Capturing and Injection 6. Cryptography 7. Secure Shell (SSH) 8. Brute Force 9. Web Applications 10. Web Scraping 11. Host Discovery and Enumeration 12. Social Engineering 13. Post Exploitation 14. Conclusions 15. Another Book You May Enjoy

Brute forcing the HTML login form

Just about every website with a user system provides a login form on a web page. We can write a program that will submit the login form repeatedly. This example assumes that there is no CAPTCHA, rate limit, or other deterring mechanisms on the web application. Remember not to perform this attack against any production site or any site you do not own or have permission. If you want to test it, I recommend that you set up a local web server and test only locally.

Every web form can be created with different names for the username and password fields, so the names of those fields will need to be provided on each run and must be specific to the URL being targeted.

View the source or inspect the target form to get the name attribute from the input elements as well as the target action attribute from the form element. If no action URL is provided in...

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