Becoming the Hacker: The Playbook for Getting Inside the Mind of the Attacker Kindle Edition
Web penetration testing by becoming an ethical hacker. Protect the web by learning the tools, and the tricks of the web application attacker.
Key Features
- Builds on books and courses on penetration testing for beginners
- Covers both attack and defence perspectives
- Examines which tool to deploy to suit different applications and situations
Book Description
Becoming the Hacker will teach you how to approach web penetration testing with an attacker’s mindset. While testing web applications for performance is common, the ever-changing threat landscape makes security testing much more difficult for the defender.
There are many web application tools that claim to provide a complete survey and defence against potential threats, but they must be analysed in line with the security needs of each web application or service. We must understand how an attacker approaches a web application and the implications of breaching its defences.
Through the first part of the book, Adrian Pruteanu walks you through commonly encountered vulnerabilities and how to take advantage of them to achieve your goal. The latter part of the book shifts gears and puts the newly learned techniques into practice, going over scenarios where the target may be a popular content management system or a containerised application and its network.
Becoming the Hacker is a clear guide to web application security from an attacker’s point of view, from which both sides can benefit.
What you will learn
- Study the mindset of an attacker
- Adopt defensive strategies
- Classify and plan for standard web application security threats
- Prepare to combat standard system security problems
- Defend WordPress and mobile applications
- Use security tools and plan for defence against remote execution
Who this book is for
The reader should have basic security experience, for example, through running a network or encountering security issues during application development. Formal education in security is useful, but not required. This title is suitable for people with at least two years of experience in development, network management, or DevOps, or with an established interest in security.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Attacking Web Applications
- Efficient Discovery
- Low-hanging Fruit
- Advanced Brute forcing
- File Inclusion Attacks
- Out of Band Exploitation
- Automated Testing
- Bad Serialisation
- Practical Client-Side Attacks
- Practical Server-Side Attacks
- Attacking APIs
- Attacking CMS
- Breaking Containers
Product description
About the Author
Adrian Pruteanu is an accomplished security consultant and researcher working primarily in the offensive security space. In his career of over 10 years, he has gone through countless penetration testing engagements, red team exercises, and application security assessments. He routinely works with Fortune 500 companies, helping them secure their systems by identifying vulnerabilities or reversing malware samples. Adrian likes to keep up with his certifications as well, and holds several of them, including CISSP, OSCE, OSCP, GXPN, GREM, and a bunch of Microsoft titles as well. As a certified trainer for Microsoft, he has also delivered custom training in the past to various clients.
In his spare time, Adrian likes to develop new tools and software to aide with penetration testing efforts or just to keep users safe online. He may occasionally go after a bug bounty or two, and he likes to spend time researching and (responsibly) disclosing vulnerabilities.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Enjoyed the eBook
4 March 2019 – Published on books-for-everyone.com
What I liked about this book is it takes the reader beyond the typical scan, find service, find vuln, exploit process. What it adds are scenarios such as linking vulnerabilities together to reach the desired outcome. The book is an easy and enjoyable read.
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