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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing
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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

by Michael McPhee
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Frameworks through a product

This is a book focused on Kali Linux, but it's worthwhile to mention that there is a slew of products that attempt all-in-one web pen testing. Some of these are very well crafted and maintained, while others have been neglected in recent years but still find advocates based on a unique feature set or an interface.

Kali Linux itself has some tool suites that it can host to provide a comprehensive coverage of the testing lifecycle. Here is a list of some of the more prevalent options:

  • IronWASP (http://ironwasp.org/index.html): This free and open source package runs on Mac and Windows or WINE on Linux, and it comes with a ton of great out-of-the-box capabilities. What makes it really powerful, however, is that you ...
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ISBN: 9781784395070