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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition

By : Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari
Book Image

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition

By: Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari

Overview of this book

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition shows you how to set up a lab, helps you understand the nature and mechanics of attacking websites, and explains classical attacks in great depth. This edition is heavily updated for the latest Kali Linux changes and the most recent attacks. Kali Linux shines when it comes to client-side attacks and fuzzing in particular. From the start of the book, you'll be given a thorough grounding in the concepts of hacking and penetration testing, and you'll see the tools used in Kali Linux that relate to web application hacking. You'll gain a deep understanding of classicalSQL, command-injection flaws, and the many ways to exploit these flaws. Web penetration testing also needs a general overview of client-side attacks, which is rounded out by a long discussion of scripting and input validation flaws. There is also an important chapter on cryptographic implementation flaws, where we discuss the most recent problems with cryptographic layers in the networking stack. The importance of these attacks cannot be overstated, and defending against them is relevant to most internet users and, of course, penetration testers. At the end of the book, you'll use an automated technique called fuzzing to identify flaws in a web application. Finally, you'll gain an understanding of web application vulnerabilities and the ways they can be exploited using the tools in Kali Linux.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Attacking Flaws in Cryptographic Implementations

One of the main objectives of information security is to protect the confidentiality of data. In a web application, the goal is to ensure that the data exchanged between the user and the application is secure and hidden from any third party. When stored on the server, the data also needs to be secured from hackers. Cryptography, the practice of communicating through and deciphering secret writings or messages, is used to protect the confidentiality as well as the integrity of the data.

Current standard cryptographic algorithms have been designed, tested, and corrected at length by highly specialized teams of mathematicians and computer scientists. Examining their work in depth is beyond the scope of this book; also, trying to find vulnerabilities inherent in these algorithms is not the goal of this book. Instead, we will focus on certain implementations of these algorithms and how you can detect and exploit implementation failures...