Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Website Penetration Testing

This chapter focuses on the basics that we need to know before we start with web application penetration testing. We will start by learning what a website actually is, as well as giving an overview of the processing that happens on the backend when we request access to a website. Later, we will discuss ways to attack a website, and look at a few tools.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• What is a website?
• Attacking a website