From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
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Hacking web servers
From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
Hacking web servers
- [Instructor] In this lesson we're going to talk about Hacking Web Servers. The attacks, the type of attacks, countermeasures, and other best practices. So let's go ahead and get started. So web server concepts. Now a web server is a program and/or system that hosts websites both on hardware and software. It delivers files and other content on websites over Hyper Text Transfer Protocol or HTTP. That's the basics of a web server. Now, as the use of the internet and the internets have increased, web services have become a major factor, a major part of that as well. For delivering files, email communications, applications, calibration type software. It's a lot of different type of software and utilities in web servers. Basically, web servers differ regarding security models, operating system and other factors. And as you can imagine, because of the type of operating systems, the security factors vary, as well as the types of security that you have to put on for protection that would…
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