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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Explore the methods and tools of ethical hacking with Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623377
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Juned Ahmed Ansari Juned Ahmed Ansari
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Daniel W. Dieterle Daniel W. Dieterle
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Preface 1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Lab with Kali Linux 3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server 4. Authentication and Session Management Flaws 5. Detecting and Exploiting Injection-Based Flaws 6. Finding and Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities 7. Cross-Site Request Forgery, Identification, and Exploitation 8. Attacking Flaws in Cryptographic Implementations 9. AJAX, HTML5, and Client-Side Attacks 10. Other Common Security Flaws in Web Applications 11. Using Automated Scanners on Web Applications 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

A cryptography primer

First, we need to establish a clear differentiation between concepts that are often confused when talking about cryptography: encryption, encoding, obfuscation, and hashing:

  • Encryption: This is the process of altering data through mathematical algorithms in order to make it unintelligible to unauthorized parties. Authorized parties are able to decrypt the message back to cleartext using a key. AES, DES, Blowfish, and RSA are well-known encryption algorithms.
  • Encoding: This also alters the message, but its main goal is to allow that message to be processed by a different system. It doesn't require a key, and it's not considered a proper way of protecting information. Base64 encoding is commonly used in modern web applications to allow the transmission of binary data through HTTP.
  • Obfuscation: This makes the original message harder to read by transforming...
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