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Practical Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Practical Web Penetration Testing Secure web applications using Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624039
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gus Khawaja Gus Khawaja
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Vulnerable Web Application Lab FREE CHAPTER 2. Kali Linux Installation 3. Delving Deep into the Usage of Kali Linux 4. All About Using Burp Suite 5. Understanding Web Application Vulnerabilities 6. Application Security Pre-Engagement 7. Application Threat Modeling 8. Source Code Review 9. Network Penetration Testing 10. Web Intrusion Tests 11. Pentest Automation Using Python 12. Nmap Cheat Sheet 13. Metasploit Cheat Sheet 14. Netcat Cheat Sheet 15. Networking Reference Section 16. Python Quick Reference 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Kali on VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a very popular virtualization product, because it's free and it offers professional features. You will probably use VirtualBox for your virtualization environment. My base machine is either Windows or macOS, and I have VirtualBox installed on top of it, so I can use Kali Linux for my penetration testing tasks.

Kali offers us pre-built images for VirtualBox, so all we need to do is import them and start using Kali right away. Amazing, right? See the following steps:

  1. To download the VirtualBox image file, go to https://www.kali.org/downloads and scroll down a little bit, until you see the following section:
  1. Follow the link to the Offensive Security Download page. On that page, you will see a table that contains the virtual image copies for VirtualBox:
  1. Choose either the 32- or the 64-bit version, and download it locally to your...
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