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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers
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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

by Himanshu Sharma, Joe Marshall
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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How (Not) To Use This Book – A Warning

A final word before moving on:

Do not misuse this book.

The techniques and technologies described in this book are solely for the purpose of participating in approved, ethical, White Hat penetration testing engagements so that you can find bugs and report them to be patched for a profit.

The lessons learned in this work should be used responsibly:

  • They should not be applied to a website against its owner's permission
  • They should not be applied to data or logic the website's owner considers out-of-scope
  • They should not in any way be weaponized – taken beyond the vulnerability stage and made into proper exploits

Here's a quick example of what's meant by weaponized.

Let's say you find a stored XSS vulnerability, ...

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