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Practical Web Penetration Testing

By : Gus Khawaja
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Practical Web Penetration Testing

By: Gus Khawaja

Overview of this book

Companies all over the world want to hire professionals dedicated to application security. Practical Web Penetration Testing focuses on this very trend, teaching you how to conduct application security testing using real-life scenarios. To start with, you’ll set up an environment to perform web application penetration testing. You will then explore different penetration testing concepts such as threat modeling, intrusion test, infrastructure security threat, and more, in combination with advanced concepts such as Python scripting for automation. Once you are done learning the basics, you will discover end-to-end implementation of tools such as Metasploit, Burp Suite, and Kali Linux. Many companies deliver projects into production by using either Agile or Waterfall methodology. This book shows you how to assist any company with their SDLC approach and helps you on your journey to becoming an application security specialist. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on knowledge of using different tools for penetration testing.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Metasploit Cheat Sheet

Process management commands

In general, Kali Linux is a stable system. However, things may occasionally go wrong, and sometimes, we will wish to tweak the system to better suit our needs. In this section, we will take a brief look at how we can manage processes on a Kali Linux system.

Htop utility

Before I start listing all of the built-in commands for managing the processes in Kali, there is a handy tool that I always use. Unfortunately, it's not preinstalled on Kali. It's called htop. This command-line tool lists all of the running processes in the Terminal window, in a nice, user-friendly layout:

#To install it
apt-get install htop
# To execute it
htop
Through using htop, I can see that I have a memory issue which...