Do you Web Diggers want to learn hacking? Do you need a legally online website for you to hack just to train and practice your hacking ability? Well let’s take a ride and dig to the digging tunnel that leads us to the HackThisSite website. HackThisSite? Well the name of the site speaks for itself; this website designed to be hacked by the visitors. Therefore, in other word you can go there and legally hack the website.
HackThisSite also known as HTS is a free training ground for users to test and expand their hacking skills. The organization is currently the largest online hacking community in the world with a user base of well over 350,000.[1] It aims to provide users and teams with a way to learn and practice basic and advanced "hacking" skills through a series of challenges, in a safe and legal environment. Per its size, many HTS users have begun their own HTS-based local hacker groups.
HackThisSite involves a small, loose team of developers and moderators who maintain its network of websites, IRC server, and related projects. It produces an e-zine, which it releases at various hacker conventions and through its hackbloc portal. Microcosm and Quimbys publish hard copies of the zine. It also has a short news/blog section run by devs.
For you diggers who may seek for place to learn and practice your hacking skill please try this website. Most important section on this website is the challenge. What do you mean with challenge? As you may have guessed, the challenge is the proving ground, place for you diggers to test your skill. The challenges in HackThissite.org are grouped into nine different levels based on the difficulty of the challenge.
Basic Mission…. Mommy can I hack this site?
Yes, for you script kiddies this is your chance to start paying attention to source code interpretation. Don’t expect too much challenge on this level. HTS made this mission to be an appetizer before the main hacking course arrived for you to eat.
Realistic Mission…. Oh is that real?
When it comes to realistic mission, it means you will deal with real website. Of course the website is flaw that why you were here to hack it. This mission will gives you the big picture that hacking start from the flaw on the website code. You play the role of a freelance hacker who is contracted by several individuals and organizations to hack for social justice causes. You are given objectives and left to explore the site on your own, trying to discover and exploit the vulnerabilities. The web hacking skills taught on this series of challenges can be directly applied to systems in the real world. There are sixteen Realistic Missions, which attempt to mimic real, moderate to difficult hacking, in real life situations. Each mission is a complete web site featuring multiple pages and scripts. Users must successfully exploit one or more of the web sites pages to gain access to required data or to produce changes.
Application Mission… Wouldn’t do any good till you apply it
This test requires more operating system / programming specific skills. These test the manipulation of applications on your own machine. The goal of application challenges is generally to extract a key from an application, usually involving some form of reverse engineering. Nevertheless, other challenges involve program manipulation.
Programming Mission… Make it work boys
A Programming Challenges section also exists. This section currently consists of ten challenges charging the user to write a program, which will perform a specified function within a certain amount of seconds after activation. These programming challenges range from simple missions such as parsing the contents, to reverse engineering an encryption algorithm. These help users develop and practice on-the-go programming skills.
Logic Mission… A little brain exercise
Every hacker needs to learn to think outside the box. This includes thinking unrelated to programming or even computers. Logic challenges encourage abstract thinking and unusual behaviors which can help a clever hacker to think his or her way out of a problem.
Extbasic mission…. Read it carefully
Reading codes is the basic of all hacking. This challenge will teach hackers to read codes and make it a deadly weapon to exploit a website.
JavaScript Mission… Using the script as you like
JavaScript is becoming more and more popular as a web component. Not only useful to make a website beautiful and interactive nowadays JavaScript also used as application script which is good because it can be a back door for a hacker to penetrate the website.
Stego Mission… Playing with puzzle
Everyone has a need to hide something. Encryption is useful for this purpose. However then everone knows you are hiding something. Hiding in plain site is much harder to do discretely.
The final challenge is literally Hack This Site. This mission challenge the users to find a hole in the real HTS website and share it with the others to gain recognition and enter the HTS hall of fame.
Before you take a tour on the website, it is better if you learn the concepts of hacking presented on this site. Because this website has take a lot of criticism hat HackThisSite's self-description as a "hacker training ground" encourages people to break the law. Many people related to the site state that although some of the skills taught can be used for illegal activities, HTS does not participate in or support such activities. Well eventually it is all come back to us, we can learn hacking, everyone have the right to learn it. But how you use those knowledge is what matters.
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