The Basics of Web Hacking

Another exciting tidbit for web hackers is the fact that web applications interact with virtually every core system in a company’s infrastructure. It’s commonplace to think that the web application is just some code running on a web server safely tucked away in an external DMZ incapable of doing serious internal damage to a company. There are several additional areas of a traditional IT infrastructure that need to be considered in order to fully target a system for attack, because a web application’s reach is much wider than the code written by a programmer. The following components also need to be considered as possible attack vectors: