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Practical Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from Practical Web Penetration Testing Secure web applications using Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788624039

Length 294 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Khawaja

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Building a Vulnerable Web Application Lab

2. Kali Linux Installation FREE CHAPTER

3. Delving Deep into the Usage of Kali Linux

4. All About Using Burp Suite

5. Understanding Web Application Vulnerabilities

6. Application Security Pre-Engagement

7. Application Threat Modeling

8. Source Code Review

9. Network Penetration Testing

10. Web Intrusion Tests

11. Pentest Automation Using Python

1. Nmap Cheat Sheet

2. Metasploit Cheat Sheet

Metasploit framework

3. Netcat Cheat Sheet

4. Networking Reference Section

5. Python Quick Reference

Quick Python language overview

6. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Python IDE

You will need a Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to develop your own scripts. You're not obliged to use a Python IDE, and instead, you can use any text editor in Kali Linux (for example, nano, vim, or gedit). However, using a professional IDE is a must if you want to easily develop large scripts that allow you to debug errors, format the source code, visualize the output, and detect errors even before the application is run. In this chapter, we will use a very popular and free Python IDE calledPyCharm. You can find it at https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/.

You can also use the Python interpreter using your Terminal window. Let's say you have an idea and you want to test it quickly. Open your Terminal window in Kali, type python, and then press Enter. Let's look at an example. I will create a variable called ip_address, give it a value, and then print it on the screen:

You can see in the preceding screenshot that the default Python interpreter in Kali is 2.7.14, and...

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Authors (1)

Khawaja

Khawaja

Gus Khawaja holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. He specializes in IT security and ethical hacking. He is an author and shares his passion with millions of viewers around the world using his online courses. He also works as a cybersecurity consultant in Montreal, Canada. After many years of experience in programming, he turned his attention to cybersecurity and the importance that security brings to this minefield. His passion for the ethical hacking mixed with his background in programming and IT makes him a wise swiss-knife professional in the computer science domain.

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