Learn Website Hacking And Security With DVWA Tools

Lots of readers often ask me How can I be good at website hacking and web application security, The thing is that even if you have an idea of how some popular website application attack work but still you need a safe environment to practice what you have learned because you are not allowed to access any website even for testing purposes unless and until you are not authorized to do that, This is where Damn vulnerable web app(DVWA) comes into play
Basically Damn vulnerable web app(DVWA) PHP/MySQL web app which is Damn vulnerable, DVWA web app allows you to learn and practice web application attacks in a safe environment, It's latest version is DVWA 1.7.

Web Hacking and Security related articles on RHA

• Flood a website with denial of service attack
• Common methods to hack a website
• Website Hacking with Directory Transversal attacks

Vulnerabilities

• SQL Injection
• XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
• LFI (Local File Inclusion)
• RFI (Remote File Inclusion)
• Command Execution
• Upload Script
• Login Brute Force
• Blind SQL Injection 

And much more.

Official warning

It should come as no shock..but this application is damn vulnerable! Do not upload it to your hosting provider’s public html folder or any working web server as it will be hacked. It’s recommend that you download and install XAMP onto a local machine inside your LAN which is used solely for testing.

Installation Guide

You can download DVWA 1.0.4 here, below I am posting a video which will tell you step by step how to install DVWA tools on your computer and practice website Hacking