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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

By : Juned Ahmed Ansari
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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

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By: Juned Ahmed Ansari

Overview of this book

Kali Linux 2.0 is the new generation of the industry-leading BackTrack Linux penetration testing and security auditing Linux distribution. It contains several hundred tools aimed at various information security tasks such as penetration testing, forensics, and reverse engineering. At the beginning of the book, you will be introduced to the concepts of hacking and penetration testing and will get to know about the tools used in Kali Linux 2.0 that relate to web application hacking. Then, you will gain a deep understanding of SQL and command injection flaws and ways to exploit the flaws. Moving on, you will get to know more about scripting and input validation flaws, AJAX, and the security issues related to AJAX. At the end of the book, you will use an automated technique called fuzzing to be able to identify flaws in a web application. Finally, you will understand the web application vulnerabilities and the ways in which they can be exploited using the tools in Kali Linux 2.0.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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5. Attacking the Server Using Injection-based Flaws
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7. Attacking SSL-based Websites
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Index

Information leakage

Information leakage is a flaw where the sensitive and critical information related to the application and server is exposed. The web application should not reveal any system-related information to the end user as a malicious user could learn about the inner working of the application and the server. Information leakage is one of the most basic flaws and can be easily avoided. Sensitive data such as the underlying technical details of the web application and environment-related information has to be closely guarded and the application developer should avoid slippage of such details to the end user.

Directory browsing

The most common form of information leakage results due to improper configuration of the directory browsing function, which displays all the files under a directory when the index file is not configured. This misconfiguration could reveal much more information than intended. The first thing that is to be done is to remove files from web directories that are...

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