Category: [ Sites and Apps To Practice Hacking ]

There are quite a few places online where you can hack anything from one website to a whole network of virtual machines. We use several of these in the classes we teach.

Also, there are sample vulnerable websites you can download and practice on, as well as virtual machines designed to be highly hackable.

These are the tools you should use to sharpen your skills. Don’t “practice” on actual sites or networks; that’ll just get you busted, which isn’t very useful unless the lesson you need to learn is that *what you do is not invisible*.

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020

[ Hacker Night School ] :: WebGoat, An OWASP Hacking Practice Website

This entry is part 25 of 26 in the series [ Hacker Night School ]

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April 13, 2020June 8, 2020

[ Hacker Night School ] :: Commando VM: a Windows Hacking “Distro”

This entry is part 21 of 26 in the series [ Hacker Night School ]

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April 13, 2020June 8, 2020

[ Hacker Night School ] :: Metasploitable 3: A Hackable Windows VM

This entry is part 23 of 26 in the series [ Hacker Night School ]

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April 13, 2020June 8, 2020

[ Hacker Night School ] :: VulnHub Walk-Throughs: This is how you learn to pwn

This entry is part 22 of 26 in the series [ Hacker Night School ]

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January 17, 2020June 8, 2020

[ Hacker Night School ] :: Command VM: a Windows Red-Team VM from FireEye

School for Hackers Red Glasses Girl

This entry is part 24 of 26 in the series [ Hacker Night School ]

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October 24, 2018January 25, 2019

[ Hacker Night School ] :: Hacking Practice: the Command Injection ISO

Pentester Academy

This entry is part 11 of 26 in the series [ Hacker Night School ]

I love sites like HackThisSite.org and root-me.org, where you can practice your hacking skills legally and safely. There are also some cool pre-vulnerable-ized web applications/sites that you can download, unzip and use on your hacking lab, like DVWA and Mutillidae. Then there are the dedicated virtual machines like Metasploitable, that give you a whole OS …

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April 27, 2018January 25, 2019

[ Hacker Night School ] :: Get your hack on crackin this site: root-me.org

Glenn Norman

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series [ Sites Where You Can Hack ]

Where HackThisSite.org is about … hacking that site, root-me.org is a whole platform. That means you can work your way through entire categories of Challenges: apps, crypto, forensics, stego, web clients and servers, and so forth. This is a blast. Don’t take my word for it. Go see. There’s an active and helpful community with …

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