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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Explore the methods and tools of ethical hacking with Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623377
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Juned Ahmed Ansari Juned Ahmed Ansari
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Daniel W. Dieterle Daniel W. Dieterle
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Preface 1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Lab with Kali Linux 3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server 4. Authentication and Session Management Flaws 5. Detecting and Exploiting Injection-Based Flaws 6. Finding and Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities 7. Cross-Site Request Forgery, Identification, and Exploitation 8. Attacking Flaws in Cryptographic Implementations 9. AJAX, HTML5, and Client-Side Attacks 10. Other Common Security Flaws in Web Applications 11. Using Automated Scanners on Web Applications 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Kali Linux

Kali Linux is a security-focused Linux distribution based on Debian. It's a rebranded version of the famous Linux distribution known as BackTrack, which came with a huge repository of open source hacking tools for network, wireless, and web application penetration testing. Although Kali Linux contains most of the tools of BackTrack, the main objective of Kali Linux was to make it portable to be installed on devices based on ARM architectures, such as tablets and the Chromebook, which makes the tools easily available at your disposal.

Using open source hacking tools comes with a major drawback—they contain a whole lot of dependencies when installed on Linux, and they need to be installed in a predefined sequence. Moreover, the authors of some tools have not released accurate documentation, which makes our life difficult.

Kali Linux simplifies this process...

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