Hacking & Stuff

10.XSS ATTACKS What is XSS? Cross Site Scripting also known as XSS , is one of the most common web appliction vulnerability that allows an attacker to run his own client side scripts(especially Javascript) into web pages viewed by other users. In a typical XSS attack, a hacker inject his malicious javascript code in the legitimate website . When a user visit the infected or a specially-crafted link , it will execute the malicious javascript. A successfully exploited XSS vulnerability will allow attackers to do phishing attacks, steal accounts and even worms.  Example : Let us imagine, a hacker has discovered XSS vulnerability in Gmail and inject malicious script. When a user visit the site, it will execute the malicious script. The malicious code can be used to redirect users to fake gmail page or capture cookies. Using this stolen cookies, he can login into your account and change password. It will be helpful for understanding XSS , if you have the following prerequisit...

9. SQL Injection: A Step-by-Step Tutorial   SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. It is an instance of a more general class of vulnerabilities that can occur whenever one programming or scripting language is embedded inside another. SQL injection attacks are also known as SQL insertion attacks. Step-by-Step tutorial for SQL Injection Step 1:  Find a website that is vulnerable to the attack. This is the first step in SQLi and like every other hack attack is the most time consuming, and is the only time consuming step. Once you get through this, rest is a cake-walk. Now, let us all know what kind of pages are vulnerable to this attack. We are providin...