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Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, 3rd Edition
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Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, 3rd Edition

by Jeremy Faircloth
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 57m
English
Syngress
Content preview from Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, 3rd Edition
Chapter 6. Web server and web application testing
Jeremy Faircloth
10662 Monroe Dr. NE, Blaine, MN 55434, United States
Information in this chapter:
• Objective
• Approach
• Core Technologies
• Open Source Tools
• Case Study: The Tools in Action
• Hands-On Challenge
It's a fact of life today: Vulnerabilities exist on Web servers and within Web applications. And attackers can take advantage of these vulnerabilities to compromise a remote system or software. This could mean gaining a shell on the remote server, or exposing the information in an application database through SQL injection or other techniques. The goal of a penetration tester in this scenario is to gain access to information which is not intended to be exposed. The goal of this chapter is ...
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ISBN: 9781597496278