Chapter 16: Advanced Website Penetration Testing
As you progress through your cybersecurity journey, you will encounter a lot of malpractices within organizations that often lead to their systems and networks being compromised by a threat actor. As an aspiring ethical hacker and penetration tester, you must test for everything, even if it's something you think is very minor within the IT industry. Many organizations use default user accounts, default configurations, outdated applications, insecure network protocols, and so on. Being able to compromise the easiest security vulnerability within a web application is all it takes sometimes to gain a bigger doorway into the organization.
In this chapter, you will learn how to discover security vulnerabilities ...
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