OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework for web applications. It permits selective access to a user's resource without disclosing the password to the website which asks for the resource. This might sound complicated at first but let me explain this: assume that you're on http://www.packt.com
(a third party) and want to sign up on their website by providing the generic details, such as first name, last name, email address, and so on, but we already have such information stored in a website, such as Facebook. Through OAuth, http://www.packt.com
can ask Facebook to provide them with user information so that the sign-up process can seamlessly proceed without the user having to enter everything manually into the sign-up form. The best part here is that http://www.packt.com
gets the user information without actually knowing the Facebook login details of the user. The approval-process interaction is carefully choreographed so that it takes minimal number of steps...
Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing
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Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing
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Overview of this book
Web penetration testing is a growing, fast-moving, and absolutely critical field in information security. This book executes modern web application attacks and utilises cutting-edge hacking techniques with an enhanced knowledge of web application security.
We will cover web hacking techniques so you can explore the attack vectors during penetration tests. The book encompasses the latest technologies such as OAuth 2.0, Web API testing methodologies and XML vectors used by hackers. Some lesser discussed attack vectors such as RPO (relative path overwrite), DOM clobbering, PHP Object Injection and etc. has been covered in this book.
We'll explain various old school techniques in depth such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection through the ever-dependable SQLMap and reconnaissance.
Websites nowadays provide APIs to allow integration with third party applications, thereby exposing a lot of attack surface, we cover testing of these APIs using real-life examples.
This pragmatic guide will be a great benefit and will help you prepare fully secure applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Common Security Protocols
Information Gathering
Cross-Site Scripting
Cross-Site Request Forgery
Exploiting SQL Injection
File Upload Vulnerabilities
Metasploit and Web
Emerging Attack Vectors
OAuth 2.0 Security
API Testing Methodology
Index
Customer Reviews