
Learn how ethical hacking is legal and helps business owners fix security holes by hiring ethical hackers to find problems and prevent breaches, including sql injection.
Explore the most common attack types, including malware, phishing, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting, and learn how these attacks compromise web apps and steal credentials.
Explore how SQL injection lets attackers access databases through web apps, illustrating the principal paradigm of this course.
Explore how clients request web pages from servers, how databases store user data, and how SQL injection can let you access a database in web apps.
Explore how databases communicate via SQL, learn to query data by selecting from tables, and practice SQL injection techniques using a tool like Seekamp.
Perform a practical SQL injection by changing a URL parameter to an asterisk to trigger a MySQL database error and reveal a web app vulnerability, for beginners in ethical hacking.
Install sqlmap via your package manager, verify installation with the help command, then use sqlmap to enumerate databases and test for sql injection on a target website.
Enumerate database tables with sqlmap to reveal database names and tables such as users and products, demonstrating how a vulnerable web app exposes backend data.
Learn how an attacker discovers database structure by listing tables, inspecting columns, and dumping user data including usernames and passwords.
Learn how sql injection works via url parameters, use payloads to reveal database errors, and understand how attackers enumerate tables and fetch data, including sqlmap.
Observe how every sql injection attempt leaves a trace in web server log files, including access logs, across server directories, showing attempted select queries and other attack patterns.
Examine how the second map tool supports SQL injection across databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server, using get parameters and post parameters in forms, with request-rate controls.
Identify and adjust parameters for sql injection tooling, including url-based access or direct database connections with credentials, ip, ports, database name, and configure proxies, tor, delays, retries, and logging.
What is sql injection?
A SQL injection is an attack in which the attacker sends a specially crafted SQL query (statement), to a database server and modifies the database as desired. An SQL injection occurs when user input is improperly sanitized before being used in an SQL query.
The vulnerability can be exploited by providing input via the user interface, or through hidden fields; however, if user input is used for parameters such as a name or an id, those parameters should be validated as well to make sure that no invalid input is used.
SQL Injection: How does it work?
In a vulnerable server, a parameter that is supplied by the user can be modified by the attacker in order to run arbitrary SQL code or commands on the back-end database. There are multiple ways of performing this kind of attack.
What's in this course
In this course you will learn how to do SQL injection using a real world example. It's a course for beginners who never did SQL injection before. After completing this course you will be able to detect if a website is vulnerable to SQL injection, be able to get data from the web apps database and compromise a database.