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

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Practical hands-on video course introducing web application penetration testing for absolute beginners. Covers installing and configuring Burp Suite, spidering and setting target scope against DVWA, brute forcing logins, discovering hidden files with OWASP ZAP, detecting web application firewalls with WAFW00F, directory enumeration with DirBuster, reflected, stored and DOM-based XSS, cross-site request forgery, cookie collection and reverse engineering, cookie stealing via HTTP attributes, and SQL injection. Suited to newcomers to security testing who want to try common attacks in a safe lab environment.

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.

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Reviews

4.6 rating, based on 9 Class Central reviews

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  • Anonymous
    I absolutely enjoyed taking the Ethical Hacking 101: Web App Penetration Testing course! It was engaging, well structured, and packed with practical knowledge that made learning both enjoyable and rewarding. The instructor explained concepts clearly…
  • Chalew Shamero
    As an introductory course into the world of offensive security, this freeCodeCamp resource is an exceptional starting point for absolute beginners. It skips unnecessary fluff and immediately sets up a practical environment, diving directly into how web application vulnerabilities are discovered and safely exploited.
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    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…
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    Franklin John Clavecillas
    i learn a lot about Web Application Pentesting different learning that i can apply in bug bounty journey and also to learn on how to exploit different vulnerabilities
  • Irwan Fakhrurrozi
    this video tutorial is very usefull for me as beginner. thank you for classcentral. i want to learn into advance skill of penetration testing.
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    Samuel Tarus
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    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
  • Profile image for Harish
    Harish
    This comprehensive course provides a solid foundation in penetration testing, making it accessible and engaging for newcomers to the field.
  • 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.
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    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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