Pentesting of Thick client and client-server applications

Balaji Vasanth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications,gmane.comp.security.penetration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Are there any specific set of methodologies/approaches, tools for the vulnerability testing of client-server applications and standalone apps developed in different languages? 

I could just think of using some TCP proxies (Echomirage, TCP Catcher etc) to intercept the client-server traffic and go ahead, debuggers like Ollydbug, WinDbg, GNU to understand the calls at client-side and some disassemblers & fuzzers (not sure on which to choose). For some thick clients communicating on Port 80/443 with the server, i am using the Fiddler plugin "Watcher". Is that good enough...?

Thanks in advance

Regards

M. Balaji Swaminathan



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