January 2019
Beginner
404 pages
8h 53m
English
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What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Attacking Web Applications, introduces you to the tools, environments, and the bare minimum ROE we must follow during engagements. We also look at the penetration tester's toolkit and explore cloud as the emerging tool for the web penetration tester.
Chapter 2, Efficient Discovery, walks you through a journey of improving efficiency in terms of gathering information on a target.
Chapter 3, Low-Hanging Fruit, clarifies, emphasizes, and exploits the fact that it is very difficult for defenders to get security right all the time, and many simple vulnerabilities often fall through the cracks.
Chapter 4, Advanced Brute-forcing, discusses brute-forcing in detail, and also explores a couple of techniques ...