Don't say we didn't warn you.
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*.
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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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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HackThisSite is the perfect place to start this list of online hacking platforms. It’s been around a long time, and has a really active community. Of course, the specific flavor of hacking you’ll pursue here is web application testing. The domain name doesn’t lie: you’re welcome to try most kinds of mapping, testing and cracking …
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