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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Testing web security is best done through simulating an attack. Kali Linux lets you do this to professional standards and this is the book you need to be fully up-to-speed with this powerful open-source toolkit.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782163169
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Penetration Testing and Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Server-side Attacks 4. Client-side Attacks 5. Attacking Authentication 6. Web Attacks 7. Defensive Countermeasures 8. Penetration Test Executive Report Index

FoxyProxy – Firefox plugin


If you plan on using proxies for testing web applications such as Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) or BURP, you may want to use the Firefox plugin FoxyProxy to simplify switching between, as well as enabling Proxy usage. FoxyProxy is a Firefox extension that lets you to easily manage, change, enable, or disable proxy settings on Firefox. You can download FoxyProxy from the Firefox add-on library.

Once FoxyProxy is installed, there will be an icon added on at the top of the Firefox browser window. Click on that to open the FoxyProxy options dialog:

In order to add a proxy to FoxyProxy, do as following:

  1. Click on the Add New Proxy button, and a new window will open.

  2. Select Manual Proxy Configuration.

  3. Enter the IP or Host address and the port number of the proxy server.

  4. Click on OK to save the new proxy.

At this point, FoxyProxy is disabled permitting all traffic without a proxy in place, as stated Completely disable FoxyProxy in the upper tab. To use a proxy, click the tab and change...

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