Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Attacking a website

In this section, we will discuss attacking a website. We have two approaches for attacking websites:

• We can use the methods that we've learned so far about attacking a website. Because we know a website is installed on a computer, we can try to attack and hack it just like any another computer. We can also try to use server-side attacks to see which web server, operating system, or other applications are installed, and, if we find any vulnerabilities, to see if we can use any of them to gain access to the computer.
• Another way to attack is to use client-side attacks. Because websites are managed by humans, there must be humans managing and maintaining these websites. This means that, if we manage to hack any of the site's ...