Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook: Over 60 indispensable Python recipes to ensure you always have the right code on hand for web application testing
β Scribed by Cameron Buchanan
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 224
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book gives you an arsenal of Python scripts perfect to use or to customize your needs for each stage of the testing process. Each chapter takes you step by step through the methods of designing and modifying scripts to attack web apps. You will learn how to collect both open and hidden information from websites to further your attacks, identify vulnerabilities, perform SQL Injections, exploit cookies, and enumerate poorly configured systems. You will also discover how to crack encryption, create payloads to mimic malware, and create tools to output your findings into presentable formats for reporting to your employers.
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<p><span>Leverage the simplicity of Python and available libraries to build web security testing tools for your application</span></p><h4><span>Key Features</span></h4><ul><li><span><span> Understand the web application penetration testing methodology and toolkit using Python</span></span></li><li><
This book will walk you through the web application penetration testing methodology, showing you how to write your own tools with Python for every main activity in the process. It will show you how to test for security vulnerabilities in web applications just like security professionals and hackers
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Setting Up Kali Linux; Introduction; Updating and upgrading Kali Linux; Installing and running OWASP Mantra; Setting up the Iceweasel browser; Installing VirtualBox; Creating a