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Becoming the Hacker

This is the code repository for Becoming the Hacker, published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the book from start to finish.

About the Book

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 defense against potential threats, but they must be analyzed 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 defenses. 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 containerized 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.

Instructions and Navigation

All of the code is organized into folders. Each folder starts with a number followed by the application name. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

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Software Requirements

Any modern web browser.

Chapter 3: PHP
Chapter 4: Python
Chapter 5: PHP
Chapter 6: Microsoft SQL Server Express
Chapter 7: BurpSuite Pro
Chapter 8: PHP, Python
Chapter 10: PHP
Chapter 11: Postman
Chapter 12: PHP

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