From the course: Ethical Hacking: Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications

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Hacking the cheese

Hacking the cheese

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Hacking the cheese

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- [Instructor] Google provides an online site for users to test, the Gruyere social media site. The first thing we need to do is to agree to the terms and conditions, then we can start. Okay, we're now at the home page and we can start testing. We can see some existing user accounts that have posted snippets, Cheddar Mac and Brie. However, we need to create a user ID for ourselves before we can do that. Let's sign up using the link at the top right. I'll enter thing1 for the username and thing1 for the password. I'm at my home page and I can now proceed to update my profile, upload snippets, and so on. You can experiment with the functionality of this application as you practice your testing. Let's sign out and sign up as another user. This time before we do anything, let's hover over the user ID field and right click. Browsers now have an inspection capability. And we can see the code that is going to be sent. As we…

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