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Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By : Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch
Book Image

Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By: Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch

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
Index

About the Reviewer

Kubilay Onur Gungor has been working in the cyber security field for more than 8 years. He started his professional career with crypt analysis of encrypted images using chaotic logistic maps.

After working as a QA tester in the Netsparker project, he continued his career in the penetration testing field. He performed many penetration tests and consultancies for the IT infrastructure of many large clients, such as banks, government institutions, and telecommunication companies. After pen testing activities, he worked as a web application security expert and incident management and response expert in Sony Europe and Global Sony Electronics.

He believes in multidisciplinary approach on cyber security and defines it as a struggle. With this approach, he has developed his own unique certification and training program, including penetration testing, malware analysis, incident management and response, cyber terrorism, criminal profiling, unorthodox methods, perception management, and international relations. Currently, this certification program is up and running in Istanbul in the name of Cyber Struggle (https://cyberstruggle.org).

Besides security, he holds certificates in foreign policy, brand management, surviving in extreme conditions, international cyber conflicts, anti-terrorism accreditation board, terrorism and counter-terrorism comparing studies.