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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

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Setting up the development environment

To develop your own extensions, you can use open source integrated development environments (IDEs), such as NetBeans or Eclipse. Choose the most comfortable IDE for yourself. In this case, we will use NetBeans:

Go to the NetBeans website (https://netbeans.org/) and download the latest version. Installation is not needed since NetBeans is developed in Java and distributed as a JAR file; just unzip the download file and click on the netbeans-bin icon, as demonstrated in the following screenshot:

Before starting to work with NetBeans, go to https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ and download the latest version of the Java Developer Kit (JDK). This is the Java package needed to develop projects in Java, and is different compared to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Install the JDK I recommend using the default directories. After installation, open NetBeans and click on Install Features. NetBeans will display a screen where there are different...