How to find a Vulnerable Website? Website Security is a major problem today and should be a priority in any organization or a webmaster, Now a days Hackers are concentrating alot of their efforts to find holes in a web application, If you are a website owner and having a High Page rank and High Traffic then there is a chance that you might be a victim of these Hackers. Few years back their existed no proper tools search for vulnerability, but now a days there are tons of tools available through which even a newbie can find a vulnerable site and start Hacking Common Methods used for Website Hacking There are lots of methods that can be used to hack a website but most common ones are as follows: 1.SQL Injection 2.XSS(Cross Site Scripting) 3.Remote File Inclusion(RFI) 4.Directory Traversal attack 5.Local File inclusion(LFI) 6.DDOS attack Tools commonly used to find a vulnerable website Acunetix Acunetix is one of my favorite tool to find a venerability in any web application It automatically checks your web applications for SQL Injection, XSS & other web vulnerabilities. Download Acunetix Web Security Scanner link below acunetix/vulnerability-scanner/ Nessus Nessus is the best unix venerability testing tool and among the best to run on windows. Key features of this software include Remote and local file securitychecks a client/server architecture with a GTK graphical interface etc. Download Nessus from the link below nessus.org/download Retina- Retina is another Vulnerability Assessment tool,It scans all the hosts on a network and report on any vulnerabilities found. Download Retina from the link below eeye/downloads Metasploit Framework The Metasploit Framework is the open source penetration testing framework with the worlds largest database of public and tested exploits. Download Metasploit from the link below : metasploit/download/ #H4ckz
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:35:35 +0000
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