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Hacking web applications
From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
Hacking web applications
- [Instructor] Hacking web applications. In this lesson, we're going to cover different techniques and ways that attackers use to hack web applications. So, let's go ahead and get started. Web applications power today's businesses, from project productivity software to marketing and customer service tools, web apps let us get work done quickly and efficiently. Now, web applications generally run on a remote application server and are available for clients over the internet. Web application can be available on different platforms; for example, browsers and software. The use of web applications, of course, have increased over the past few years. Now, web applications depend on the client server relationship, and that's the interface that we use to connect to services that we want to use. Web pages could be generated on the server, or they may contain scripts for dynamic execution on the client web browser. So, let's look at some web app threats. These are some threats that are prone to…
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