Part 2: Offensive API Hacking

This section provides a detailed exploration of advanced API security practices. It begins with an overview of API attack strategies and tactics, covering the necessary skills and tools for API testing and setting up a virtual lab. You will learn to install and use critical API security tools. The section then examines exploiting API vulnerabilities, focusing on injection attacks, authentication and authorization flaws, and various attack vectors. It continues with techniques for bypassing API authentication and authorization controls, offering practical, step-by-step guidance. Finally, it addresses attacking API input validation and encryption techniques, explaining the importance of these security measures and providing detailed methods for effectively bypassing them.

This part includes the following chapters:

• Chapter 4, API Attack Strategies and Tactics
• Chapter 5, Exploiting API Vulnerabilities
• Chapter 6, Bypassing API Authentication...