Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook - Second Edition

Preface

Nowadays, information security is a hot topic all over the news and the internet. We hear almost every day about web page defacement, data leaks of millions of user accounts and passwords or credit card numbers from websites, and identity theft on social networks. Terms such as cyberattack, cybercrime, hacker, and even cyberwar are becoming part of the daily lexicon in the media.

All this exposure to information security subjects and the very real need to protect both sensitive data and their reputations has made organizations more aware of the need to know where their systems are vulnerable, especially ones that are accessible to the world through the internet, how they could be attacked, and what the consequences would be in terms ...