Monday, February 24, 2014

Resources

Google Gruyere:

Google is kind enough to offer, for free (in typical Google fashion), a series of tutorials to teach users common web vulnerabilities. The only prerequisite is that you have some basic knowledge of web development.

There are two basic forms of hacking: black box and white box. Black box hacking is the attempt to find vulnerabilities in a website by manipulating data fields, URL parameters, and intercepting HTML request and response actions. White box is studying the source code of a web application to find vulnerabilities in that fashion.

Diving more in depth, these are the tutorials Gruyere offers:

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Client State Manipulation
  • Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF)
  • Cross-Site Script Inclusion
  • Path Traversal
  • Denial of Service (DoS)
I plan to complete all of these tutorials to broaden my knowledge of web security. 

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