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SQL Injection Strategies

By : Ettore Galluccio, Edoardo Caselli, Gabriele Lombari
Book Image

SQL Injection Strategies

By: Ettore Galluccio, Edoardo Caselli, Gabriele Lombari

Overview of this book

SQL injection (SQLi) is probably the most infamous attack that can be unleashed against applications on the internet. SQL Injection Strategies is an end-to-end guide for beginners looking to learn how to perform SQL injection and test the security of web applications, websites, or databases, using both manual and automated techniques. The book serves as both a theoretical and practical guide to take you through the important aspects of SQL injection, both from an attack and a defense perspective. You’ll start with a thorough introduction to SQL injection and its impact on websites and systems. Later, the book features steps to configure a virtual environment, so you can try SQL injection techniques safely on your own computer. These tests can be performed not only on web applications but also on web services and mobile applications that can be used for managing IoT environments. Tools such as sqlmap and others are then covered, helping you understand how to use them effectively to perform SQL injection attacks. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with SQL injection, from both the attack and defense perspective.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Section 1: (No)SQL Injection in Theory
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Section 2: SQL Injection in Practice

The target – configuring your target-emulated devices

We will now see how to set up mobile and IoT emulated devices.

In terms of functionality, these devices have a more restricted range of operations: usually, IoT devices have very limited computational power, and usually rely on simple web services, stripped out of any rich graphical setting.

Some applications from the OWASP BWA virtual web server can actually mimic this behavior by providing web server application programming interfaces (APIs). We can say that we have already set up some of the environment for web service interaction.

A side note: the OWASP IoT security testing framework and IoTGoat projects

An interesting approach to IoT Security Testing comes, once again, from OWASP: the IoT security testing framework was released this year, and provides a thorough methodology for assessing and testing vulnerabilities in IoT environments, in a similar fashion as in the web application and mobile application...