Objectives: related course level objective 2,3 (Exploit web and mobile vulnerabilities with hands-on tools; Defend against common web and mobile vulnerabilities)

At the end of this module you will be able to:

• perform a basic authentication brute force attack on a web server
• scan for common Apache web server vulnerabilities, and harden the server against vulnerabilities.
• use open source software such as hydra and nikto to brute force basic authentication credentials and scan for common web server vulnerabilities.
• develop a page having userid and password combination on Apache that is hardened against common vulnerabilities

Learning activities for this week

To achieve the above-mentioned objectives for this module, please complete the following tasks:

• Read the posted lecture slides 

• Read additional reading resources 

• Complete Asg#1 and Asg#2, Discussion#1