Introduction to Mantra

The Mantra browser provides penetration testers with a myriad of tools that make web application testing efficient and fun. It takes advantage of many of the browser-based plugins that have been written over the years and is available at http://getmantra.com. Be sure to check out some of the well written and detailed tutorials made available at this site as they provide use case examples beyond the basics. We will use the plugins within Mantra to fully exploit the Kioptrix 3 machine in our lab in an efficient manner. The primary plugin we take advantage of in this example is the Hackbar. You can learn more about Hackbar at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hackbar/. The Hackbar and other add-ons in Mantra make testing web applications fun and allow a knowledgeable penetration tester to manually verify the security of a web application.

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You will still need to understand how web application security works and how to manually perform these tests; Mantra...