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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788994064

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (3):

Dhruv Shah

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar

Carlos A. Lozano

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

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

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