Book Image

Pentesting Web Applications [Video]

By : Tajinder Kalsi
Book Image

Pentesting Web Applications [Video]

By: Tajinder Kalsi

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is not only about networks but also web applications. Begin your journey by familiarizing yourself with the well-known tools to perform vulnerability assessment. Take a deep dive into understanding Metasploit Framework and learn how to maintain access on the target machine, when successfully exploited. Documentation is always essential and so is creating an effective report for submission to the customer. You will learn what to include in reports. Finally, you will be all set to perform penetration testing in a real-time scenario, and will try to crack a challenge, summing up everything you have learnt so far and apply it in real-time.
Table of Contents (4 chapters)
Chapter 2
Post Exploitation
Content Locked
Section 2
Post Exploitation on Linux
After gaining access of a Linux machine, we may not be having the root access still. This will stop us from executing system level commands. The aim of this video is to learn about methods to escalate privilege on a Linux machine. - Exploit and gain access of Linux machine using known vulnerability - Further explore the machine to find misconfigurations - Use the flaws due to misconfigurations, to gain root access