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Ethical Hacking 101: Web App Penetration Testing - a full course for beginners

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Overview

This course on web application penetration testing aims to teach beginners the fundamentals and advanced techniques in ethical hacking. By the end of the course, students will be able to set up tools like Burp Suite, WAFW00F, and OWASP ZAP, conduct various attacks such as XSS and SQL injection, and understand concepts like CSRF and cookie stealing. The teaching method includes practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises. This course is intended for individuals interested in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, or web application security.

Syllabus

Setting Up Burp Suite.
Spidering & DVWA.
Brute Force Attacks With Burp Suite.
Target Scope And Spidering.
Discovering Hidden Files With ZAP.
Web Application Firewall Detection with WAFW00F.
DirBuster.
XSS(Reflected, Stored & DOM).
CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery).
Cookie Collection & Reverse Engineering.
HTTP Attributes (Cookie Stealing).
SQL Injection.

Taught by

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Reviews

4.5 rating, based on 4 Class Central reviews

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  • Profile image for Charles Owusu Asare
    Charles Owusu Asare
    "Ethical Hacking 101: Web App Penetration Testing" is an excellent course tailored for beginners looking to delve into the fascinating world of ethical hacking and web application penetration testing. Here's my review: This course provides an ideal…
  • Profile image for Samuel Tarus
    Samuel Tarus
    Thank you for the Great course for learning ethical hacking and penetration testing for beginners . With the majority of items from OWASP being covered on
  • João Pambo Lopes
    I like so much this course 'cause show me how function Hacking in prática.
    So I recommend this for any people If u wanna learn web Hacking and give first step it's your opportunity.
  • Profile image for Praise Chukwudi
    Praise Chukwudi
    covers basic topics on web-app penetration
    and the courses are really short, simple and precise but well detailed

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