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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 11 - ZAP impressions from a Burp user
    It probably seems a bit odd to do this on Day 11 and not at the end of the series, but I have one ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 10 - Manual Web App Testing Unproxied
    Most of the time, proxying the browser doesn’t present any sort of trouble. You should be able to ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 9 - Automated Scanning and ATTACK mode
    application security  |  OWASP  |  automation  |  scanning
    Automated scanning against an application is useful. It’s a faster and less labor-intensive way to ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 8 - Spidering
    Spidering is an automated process that recursively finds and follows all the navigation from an ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 7 - API Testing with Postman and ZAP
    application security  |  OWASP  |  API
    If you’ve done any significant amount of API development, there’s a good chance you’ve used ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPMAS - Day 6 - Passive Flaw Detection and Using the HUD
    One of the awesome things about a security-focused interception proxy like ZAP is its ability to ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 5 - Scope and Contexts
    Normally I don’t like having my interception proxy hide out-of-scope traffic. Doing so creates a ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 4 - Fuzzing for Injection
    I briefly introduced fuzzing earlier in the series, citing it as the second primitive upon which ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 3 - CYA (Cover Your Auth)
    Access control is one of the crucial elements to application security. The vast majority of ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow
    Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow - Replaying and Tampering with Requests Fuzzing and tampering are like ...
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    Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 1 - Setting Up ZAP
    This holiday season, I’m going to run down some of the ins and outs of working with OWASP Zed ...
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