January 2017
Beginner to intermediate
1045 pages
22h 24m
English
book
Penetration Testing: A Survival Guide
by Wolf Halton, Bo Weaver, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli, Mohammed A. Imran
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Chapter 4. Web Application Exploitation
One of the easiest ways for an outsider to get into your network is by attacking your web presence. There are three classes of attack that are the most common for all webservers and application servers: cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, and SQL injection. As a penetration tester, you have to find and exploit the vulnerabilities presented, if possible. We will introduce three different tools for this purpose in this chapter: Armitage, OWASP ZAP, and Burp Suite. Armitage is the GUI frontend for the Metasploit Framework, OWASP ZAP is the Non-Profit OWASP organization's web-based webapplication testing tool, and Burp Suite is a complete webapp exploiter from Portswigger.
- Surveying the webscape
- Arm yourself ...
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