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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

A5 – Basic security configuration guide


Default configurations of systems, including operating systems and Web servers, are mostly created to demonstrate and highlight their basic or most relevant features, not to be secure or protect them from attacks.

Some common default configurations that may compromise the security are the default administrator accounts created when the database, web server, or CMS was installed, and the default administration pages, default error messages with stack traces, among many others.

In this recipe, we will cover the fifth most critical vulnerability in the OWASP top 10, Security Misconfiguration.

How to do it...

  1. If possible, delete all the administrative applications such as Joomla's admin, WordPress' admin, PhpMyAdmin, or Tomcat Manager. If that is not possible, make them accessible from the local network only; for example, to deny access from outside networks to PhpMyAdmin in an Apache server, modify the httpd.conf file (or the corresponding site configuration...

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