Luca Carettoni - Instant Burp Suite Starter
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Get up and running with Burp Suite using this hands-on practical guide
Overview
- Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
- Intercept HTTP/S requests with Burp Proxy.
- Tamper and analyze responses.
- Perform enumeration using the Burp Suite Map and Spider.
- Launch an automatic scan with Burp Scanner
- Automate attacks using Burp Intruder.
In Detail
Web security is more important than ever for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of web applications. Although there is no silver bullet tool, using the right instruments does play a critical role in any security initiative. Burp Suite is a well-known integrated platform for performing security testing and is considered the de-facto standard for testing web applications.
Instant Burp Suite Starter is a practical, hands-on guide that can help you take advantage of the Burp Suite, a powerful web security tool. Thanks to its step-by-step examples, you will quickly learn how to efficiently discover web application vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and Cross-site scripting.
From intercepting your first web request, you will soon be able to inspect parameters, perform tampering, and eventually discover security flaws.
You will also learn how to use the numerous tools available in Burp Suite in order to enumerate all web application entry points, perform scans, and automatically detect security flaws. Then test your sites with automated customized attacks, analyze the randomness of application data, decode data in multiple formats, and much more.
Instant Burp Suite Starter will teach you everything you need to know to get started with testing your first application using Burp Suite. You will learn helpful tips and tricks on how to discover potentially destructive security flaws in your application.
What you will learn from this book
- Set up your browser and Burp Suite
- Intercepting, inspecting, and modifying web traffic between your client and the server
- Using the Burp Target site map functionality
- Crawling a web application and discovering resources with Burp Spider
- Launching a scan with Burp Scanner to automatically detect security vulnerabilities
- Automating customized attacks with Burp Intruder
- Manipulating and iterating web requests with Burp Repeater
- Analyzing the randomness of application data with Burp Sequencer
- Decoding and encoding data in multiple formats with Burp Decoder
- Comparing site maps in order to detect authorization bugs
Approach
Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This starter guide will lead you through the field of application security with everyday examples explained. Build up your skills and your defenses with this hands-on tutorial.
Who this book is written for
If you are an application developer with a focus on security then this practical guide is for you. Even with basic knowledge of security you will be able to develop your expertise and make your applications bulletproof.
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First published: January 2013
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Luca Carettoni
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Claudio Criscione
Luca De Fulgentis
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Luca Carettoni is a security researcher with over eight years of experience in the application security field. His professional expertise includes black box testing, web application security, vulnerability research, and source code analysis. He is the Director of Information Security at Addepar, a company that is re-inventing the infrastructure which powers global wealth management.
Prior to Addepar, Luca worked at Matasano Security as a senior security consultant, performing vulnerability research activities on a wide range of systems: from web applications to stand-alone software and mobile applications. In the past years, he has been an active participant in the security community and a member of the Open Web Application Security Project ( OWASP ). He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university.
Claudio Criscione is a cat tamer and a security expert, even though he often fails to see the difference. He graduated in Milan and worked as a security consultant for large enterprises, focusing on web and virtualization security. He is a believer in full (yet responsible) disclosure and still appreciates the challenges in security, even though hes currently busy scaling security testing on large organizations. He had the chance to be a speaker around the world, yet he now lives in Switzerland.
Luca De Fulgentis is an application security engineer with experience in application penetration testing and source code reviewing. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano from where he graduated with a thesis on evolutionary fuzzing. He works for Secure Network as a security consultant, where he is involved in penetration testing and security research on web application exploiting techniques and Microsoft Windows Phone.
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Welcome to the Instant Burp Suite Starter. This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information that you need to get set up with Burp Suite. You will learn the basics of Burp Suite, get started with testing your first application, and discover some tips and tricks for using Burp Suite.
This document contains the following sections:
So what is Burp Suite? find out what Burp Suite actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.
Installation learn how to download and setup Burp Suite so that you can use it as soon as possible.
Quick start this section will show you how to perform one of the core tasks of Burp Suite; intercept HTTP/S requests and perform tampering. Follow the steps to intercept, inspect and modify HTTP/S traffic between client and server.
Top 8 features you need to know about here you will learn how to perform eight tasks with the most important features of Burp Suite. By the end of this section you will be able to use the target site map functionality, crawl a web application, launch a scan to detect security vulnerabilities, automate customized attacks, manipulate and iterate web requests, analyze the randomness of application data, decode and encode data in multiple format and compare site maps in order to detect authorization bugs.
People and places you should get to know every security project is centered around a community. This section provides you with many useful links to the project page and forums, as well as a number of helpful articles, tutorials, and blogs on Burp Suite
Burp Suite is an easy-to-use integrated platform for web application security. Burp includes multiple tools that are seamlessly integrated and allow you to test every component and aspect of modern web applications. Whether you need to verify the robustness of your authentication mechanism, the predictability of your session tokens, or the input validation checkpoints present in your application, Burp is the Swiss-army knife for security practitioners. Not only does it allow in-depth manual assessments, but it also combines automated techniques to enumerate and analyze web application resources.
Burp has been developed by PortSwigger Ltd. and it is distributed in two editions:
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