Practice your pen testing skills with the OWASP Juice Shop challenge
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The OWASP Juice Shop has over 100 tasks that will get you up to speed on pen testing. This article guides you through your first steps.
You can quickly test whether your web server is an open door for attackers by breaking into your own system. All you need to do is … well, what actually? Isn't there this Metasploit tool that you can simply fire against the server? But before you point massive unknown weapons at your own server, you might want to take some time to familiarize yourself with the available tools and their purposes. And the best way to get started is to break into a test system.
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) makes its Juice Shop [1] available for starting pen testers. In addition to offering tasty fruit juices, the Juice Shop also deliberately contains a number of vulnerabilities, providing newcomers with an ideal target for hands-on pen testing practice. You can quickly set up the Juice Shop in a Docker container.
Open for Business
Because the Juice Shop has security vulnerabilities, you will not want to launch it on your own system. Instead, install your favorite distribution on a virtual machine (VM) or on an old laptop. Other services running in the background on your system will not interfere with the analysis. In principle, any distribution can serve as the underpinnings, but it should have the following tools in its repositories: Docker, Nmap, Dirb, and Base64. You can play it safe with Debian or go for the Kali Linux [2] pen testing distribution.
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