Learning about web security with Web Security Dojo
Security is now a major focus for Internet users and companies. Unfortunately, the sophisticated nature of recent attack techniques, as well as the ever-increasing surveillance ambitions of the authorities and data-mining corporations, continues to complicate the quest for a safe and secure Internet.
A specialized Linux environment called Web Security Dojo [1] offers an easy way for everyday users and beginning professionals to learn about web security. Dojo is designed to provide practical, hands-on exercises on web security and intrusion techniques.
The Dojo virtual appliance is available on SourceForge [2] as an image of around 2.3GB in OVA format. The Dojo is suitable to run in VirtualBox from version 5.0 and also in VMware. After you download the image, install a test environment in VirtualBox by specifying the storage path for the OVA file in the newly opened dialog via the File | Import Appliance… menu. Then create a new virtual machine from the appliance (Figure 1).
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