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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

By : Michael McPhee
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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

By: Michael McPhee

Overview of this book

You will start by delving into some common web application architectures in use, both in private and public cloud instances. You will also learn about the most common frameworks for testing, such as OWASP OGT version 4, and how to use them to guide your efforts. In the next section, you will be introduced to web pentesting with core tools and you will also see how to make web applications more secure through rigorous penetration tests using advanced features in open source tools. The book will then show you how to better hone your web pentesting skills in safe environments that can ensure low-risk experimentation with the powerful tools and features in Kali Linux that go beyond a typical script-kiddie approach. After establishing how to test these powerful tools safely, you will understand how to better identify vulnerabilities, position and deploy exploits, compromise authentication and authorization, and test the resilience and exposure applications possess. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the web service architecture to identify and evade various protection mechanisms that are used on the Web today. You will leave this book with a greater mastery of essential test techniques needed to verify the secure design, development, and operation of your customers' web applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Speed-dating your target

Business logic is best understood through a discovery of what the application itself is trying to do, assessing expected behavior, and then looking for ways in which that expected behavior falls apart. Some of these issues may in fact be due to an issue with the software, or a misconfiguration of the modules supporting the application. While the line is blurry at times, we're going to focus on behavioral flaws that are better uncovered with insight into the application's purpose, the company's objectives, and the processes that the target's developers believe they were delivering.

So, how does OWASP define these vulnerabilities? In actuality, these flaws are less straightforward than the others we have looked at together so far. They are also often categorized improperly, but our major concern should be the integrity of the application...