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Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications

You're reading from   Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications Discover the mindset, techniques, and tools to perform modern web attacks and exploitation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816298
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Attack Preparation
2. Chapter 1: Mindset and Methodologies FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Toolset for Web Attacks and Exploitation 4. Part 2: Evergreen Attacks
5. Chapter 3: Attacking the Authentication Layer – a SAML Use Case 6. Chapter 4: Attacking Internet-Facing Web Applications – SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) on WordPress 7. Chapter 5: Attacking IoT Devices – Command Injection and Path Traversal 8. Part 3: Novel Attacks
9. Chapter 6: Attacking Electron JavaScript Applications – from Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) to Remote Command Execution (RCE) 10. Chapter 7: Attacking Ethereum Smart Contracts – Reentrancy, Weak Sources of Randomness, and Business Logic 11. Chapter 8: Continuing the Journey of Vulnerability Discovery 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Understanding an Electron JavaScript application’s structure

Let’s understand how the processes and filesystems of these applications are structured.

Electron JavaScript application processes structure

An Electron app’s structure is based on two primary processes – the main process and the renderer process:

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