In the pre-attack phase, there are seven steps, which have been defined by the EC-Council, as follows:

1. Information gathering
2. Determining network range
3. Identifying active machines
4. Finding open ports and applications
5. OS fingerprinting
6. Fingerprinting services
7. Mapping the network

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How does a cross site scripting (XSS) attack work?

A cross site scripting attack works in the following manner: * The attacker identifies a web site that has one or more XSS bugs for example, a web site that

Selection of tools to automate an attack SQL Injection

sqlmap (http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/) Full support: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Partially supported: Microsoft Access, DB2, Informix, Sybase and Interbase. SQL Power Injector (http://www.sqlpowerinjector.com/) Implemented support for: Microsoft SQL Server,

XSS Stealing Cookies

This method (XSS attacks) is for get the cookies users, so, for get information of users… and then, login into the account of the victim user…u will have to give