Penetration testing on a vulnerable environment

The following sections list online web application challenges and virtual machine and ISO images that contain vulnerable applications. These resources can be used to learn penetration testing in your own system environment.

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/

It contains four free challenges in the web application area such as form bruteforcing 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 ...

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