How To Find A Vulnerability Of Websites To Deface it

Website Security is a major problem today and
should be a priority in any organization or a
webmaster, Now a days Hackers are
concentrating alot of their efforts to find holes
in a web application, If you are a website owner
and having a High Page rank and High Traffic
then there is a chance that you might be a
victim of these Hackers.

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
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.



Download Acunetix Web Security Scanner

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.

Download Nessus from the link below
http://www.nessus.org/download

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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

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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