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Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

You're reading from   Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook Hacking tactics, techniques, and procedures for testing web applications and APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817332
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nestor Torres Nestor Torres
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Ahmed Almoailu Ahmed Almoailu
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Ryan Soper Ryan Soper
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 2. Chapter 2: Navigating the UI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Scanning, and Reporting 4. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing 5. Chapter 5: Testing of Session Management 6. Chapter 6: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 1 7. Chapter 7: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 2 8. Chapter 8: Business Logic Testing 9. Chapter 9: Client-Side Testing 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Attack Techniques 11. Chapter 11: Advanced Adventures with ZAP 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing for Credentials Transported over an Encrypted Channel

In this recipe, we will walk through how to verify that the user’s login username and password are transmitted to the web server from the browser over an encrypted channel. It is crucial for an application to send login information or any sensitive data such as session IDs over an encrypted channel. The data transmitted between the application server and the user’s browser can be intercepted by an attacker, and if the traffic is encrypted, the attacker will not be able to read the data being transmitted.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, please start ZAP and OWASP Juice Shop. Make sure that ZAP intercepts traffic at the OWASP Juice Shop application home page.

How to do it…

To know whether a website is accessible and transmits data over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), we have to intercept the login HTTP request. Let’s look at...

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