April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
454 pages
10h 8m
English
book
Kali Linux - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Second Edition
by Tedi Heriyanto, Lee Allen, Shakeel Ali
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Web application tools
In this section, we will discuss several tools that can be used to test web applications.
Golismero
Golismero is an open source framework for web testing. It is written in the Python language. The interesting features of Golismero are listed as follows:
- It collects and unifies the results from well-known tools such as
sqlmap,xsser,openvas,dnsrecon, andtheharvester - It integrates with CWE, CVE, and OWASP
Golismero, which is included with Kali Linux, is an old version and doesn't have features for testing the security of web applications.
You can download the latest version at https://github.com/golismero/golismero/archive/master.zip.
Then, extract the zip file. As a start, you can type the following command to display the Golismero ...
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