Online web application challenges

The following table lists several websites that provide several challenges, which you can use to learn penetration testing:

URL

Description

https://pentesteracademylab.appspot.com

This contains four free challenges in the web application area, such as form brute forcing and HTTP basic authentication attack.

https://hack.me

Hack.me is a free, community-based project powered by eLearnSecurity. The community can build, host, and share vulnerable web application code for educational and research purposes.

https://www.hacking-lab.com

Hacking-Lab provides a security lab with various security challenges that you can try. They even provide a Live CD that will enable access into the Hacking-Lab's remote security ...

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