How To Find Vulnerable Websites

Website security is a major problem today and should be a priority in any organization or a webmaster, Now a days Hackers are concentrating a lot 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.

A few years ago the risk of finding no suitable devices exist, but one day, a new member of a vulnerable site and you can start hacking through which there are tons of tools available.

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 Vulnerable Websites

Acunetix

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

Nessus

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

Retina

Retina, a risk assessment tool, it finds a network and report on any vulnerabilities scans the host.

Metasploit Framework

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


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