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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

Appendix 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook Himanshu Sharma

ISBN: 978-1-78712-182-9

  • Installing, setting up and customizing Kali for pentesting on multiple platforms
  • Pentesting routers and embedded devices
  • Bug hunting 2017
  • Pwning and escalating through corporate network
  • Buffer overflows 101
  • Auditing wireless networks
  • Fiddling around with software-defined radio
  • Hacking on the run with NetHunter
  • Writing good quality reports

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Shiva V.N. Parasram

ISBN: 978-1-78862-500-5

  • Get to grips with the fundamentals of digital forensics and explore best practices
  • Understand the workings of file systems, storage, and data fundamentals
  • Discover incident response procedures and best practices
  • Use DC3DD and Guymager for acquisition and preservation techniques
  • Recover deleted data with Foremost and Scalpel
  • Find evidence of accessed programs and malicious programs using Volatility.
  • Perform network and internet capture analysis with Xplico
  • Carry out professional digital forensics investigations using the DFF and Autopsy automated forensic suites