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Security with Go

By : John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad
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Security with Go

By: John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad

Overview of this book

Go is becoming more and more popular as a language for security experts. Its wide use in server and cloud environments, its speed and ease of use, and its evident capabilities for data analysis, have made it a prime choice for developers who need to think about security. Security with Go is the first Golang security book, and it is useful for both blue team and red team applications. With this book, you will learn how to write secure software, monitor your systems, secure your data, attack systems, and extract information. Defensive topics include cryptography, forensics, packet capturing, and building secure web applications. Offensive topics include brute force, port scanning, packet injection, web scraping, social engineering, and post exploitation techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Brute forcing the HTML login form

Just about every website with a user system provides a login form on a web page. We can write a program that will submit the login form repeatedly. This example assumes that there is no CAPTCHA, rate limit, or other deterring mechanisms on the web application. Remember not to perform this attack against any production site or any site you do not own or have permission. If you want to test it, I recommend that you set up a local web server and test only locally.

Every web form can be created with different names for the username and password fields, so the names of those fields will need to be provided on each run and must be specific to the URL being targeted.

View the source or inspect the target form to get the name attribute from the input elements as well as the target action attribute from the form element. If no action URL is provided in...