DVWA VS WebGoat

There's also a bunch of intentionally vulnerable Webapps and VMs aimed at demonstrating potential footholds and common exploits leading to owning of the host including but not limited to: bWAPP, Damn Vulnerable Web App, WebGoat, Metasploitable 3, Mutillidae, Juice Shop

I'd suggest you to download for example a VM of Damn Vulnerable Web Application (https://github.com/digininja/DVWA), learn and practice the attacks, and then try to protect the host from these attacks to prevent or limit access to the system.

I deployed a Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) for you, I DM'ed the url and creds. It's a controlled sandbox, intentionally vulnerable app for you to try out your hackerman skills. Go nuts, have fun dude.

For app security check out the damn vulnerable web app: https://github.com/digininja/DVWA

A fresh install laptop is probably going to be a frustrating first place to start as it is unlikely to be exposing any services for you to scan or test. You could install some vulnerable services, like the damn vulnerable web application here which has good setup instructions and many, many walkthroughs.

You could spin up a version of dvwa and scan that. https://github.com/digininja/DVWA

sudo git clone https://github.com/digininja/DVWA/git

DVWA is a pretty solid educational, training application that is meant for this purpose. There are a bunch of different modules, but one is bruteforcing passwords.

Damn Vulnerable Web App

WebGoat and Juice Shop are two "deliberately insecure" applications containing hundreds of security vulnerabilities for you to find and exploit, including SQL injections. Both projects provide extensive educational material to guide you.

Click Save and then Run. If your codebase doesn’t have an OWASP critical bug, the pipeline should execute successfully. To enforce a fail on this OWASP scan, use a codebase with known vulnerabilities like WebGoat and you’ll see the OWASP scanner in action.

There's also a bunch of intentionally vulnerable Webapps and VMs aimed at demonstrating potential footholds and common exploits leading to owning of the host including but not limited to: bWAPP, Damn Vulnerable Web App, WebGoat, Metasploitable 3, Mutillidae, Juice Shop

Bro, i recommend you to create your own labs using vmware or virtualbox. There are so many VM images out there that was created for educational purposes. For example https://www.vulnhub.com/ has multiple VM images. You can test your skill by downloading and importing to your Virtual platform. Also, take consider to solve all problems in WebGoat and DVWA images.

I highly recommend studying for more than just the cert. Get comfortable with cybersecurity itself. My biggest recommendation would be WebGoat. This also works great alongside studying for the sec+. https://owasp.org/www-project-webgoat/ Completely free and intentionally built to be insecure and help you learn and apply security concepts and use security tools. Also try https://tryhackme.com/ -> Both free.

I'm using latest version which you can find at https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/releases/tag/v2023.4

If you want to learn more check out the following resources: - OWASP top 10 (common security issues and what to do about them): https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ - webgoat (pentest training): https://owasp.org/www-project-webgoat/ - https://safestack.io/ - really good software security training (I had in person training from them before their online resources were available, but haven't tried the online courses myself) - My personal favourite book on crypto is Applied Cryptography by Wiley, but I'm not a cryptographer, just an engineer - If anyone has more beginner-friendly resources then please comment