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You're reading from Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite Use Burp Suite and its features to inspect, detect, and exploit security vulnerabilities in your web applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788994064

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (3):

Dhruv Shah

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar

Carlos A. Lozano

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Configuring Burp Suite FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuring the Client and Setting Up Mobile Devices

3. Executing an Application Penetration Test

4. Exploring the Stages of an Application Penetration Test

5. Preparing for an Application Penetration Test

6. Identifying Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite

7. Detecting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite

8. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 1

9. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 2

10. Writing Burp Suite Extensions

11. Breaking the Authentication for a Large Online Retailer

12. Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Differences between a bug bounty and a client-initiated pentest

Before we jump into the core details, let's first understand these two mindsets:

Bug bounty pentest mindset:
- The aim is to find vulnerabilities that have an impact and fetch a good bounty
- A complete assessment of the application doesn't need to be done
- One bug is enough to qualify for a bounty
- All the vulnerabilities in the application are not reported, only the ones found
- There are no particular timelines; it can be done at the pentester's convenience
Client-initiated pentest mindset:
- The aim is to ensure that all the application processes and functionalities are tested
- There is a limited timeline in which the whole application needs to be audited
- There is no bounty or rewards
- There is a need to ensure that all the vulnerabilities found by a scanner are validated and reported

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Authors (3)

Carlos A. Lozano

Carlos A. Lozano is a security consultant with more than 15 years' experience in various security fields. He has worked as a penetration tester, but most of his experience is with security application assessments. He has assessed financial applications, ISC/SCADA systems, and even low-level applications, such as drivers and embedded components. Two years ago, he started on public and private bug bounty programs and focused on web applications, source code review, and reversing projects. Also, Carlos works as Chief Operations Officer at Global CyberSec, an information security firm based in Mexico, with operations in the USA and Chile.

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Ahemed Walikar

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar is a Web Application Pentester, security evangelist, and researcher. He has been active in the security community for the last 10 years. He is actively involved with vulnerability research in popular web applications and network aware services and has disclosed several security issues in popular software like Apache Archiva, Openfire, and so on. He has found vulnerabilities with popular web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and so on for which he is on the Hall of Fame for most of these services. He has also been a speaker and trainer at several security conferences. His technical interests lie with programming, bug bounty, malware analysis, breaking web applications, playing CTFs, and penetration testing networks.

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Dhruv Shah

Dhruv Shah holds a Masters degree in IT and has 7 years of experience as a specialist in Information Security. He started off as a trainer sensitizing staff in private sector organizations about security issues and what hackers look for when they launch attacks on networks. He, later on, switched his job to carry out penetration testing for Indian government agencies and then for banking clients in the Middle East. He now has extensive experience in penetration testing for Fortune 500 companies involving web and mobile applications, networks, Infra, and Red Team work. In his spare time, he co-authored the book Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation and is an active member and moderator of one of the Null chapters in India.

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