Common Methods used for Website Hacking

Common Methods used for Website Hacking

There are lots of methods that can be used to hack a website but most common ones are as follows:

1.SQL Injection
2.XSS(Cross Site Scripting)
3.Remote File Inclusion(RFI)
4.Directory Traversal attack
5.Local File inclusion(LFI)
6.DDOS attack

Tools commonly used to find a vulnerable website

1) Acunetix    

Acunetix is one of my favorite tool to find a venerability in any web application It automatically checks your web applications for SQL Injection, XSS & other web vulnerabilities.

2) Nessus

Nessus is the best unix venerability testing tool and among the best to run on windows. Key features of this software include Remote and local file securitychecks a client/server architecture with a GTK graphical interface etc.

3) Retina

Retina is another Vulnerability Assessment tool,It scans all the hosts on a network and report on any vulnerabilities found.

Download Retina from the link below
http://www.eeye.com/downloads

4)Metasploit Framework

The Metasploit Framework is the open source penetration testing framework with the world’s largest database of public and tested exploits.

Download Metasploit from the link below :
http://www.metasploit.com/download/