Caffeinate Hours | Web Security for Beginners

Caffeinated Hours are self study sessions on !nfinite HackQuarters Discord Server.

Topic: Web Security for Beginners

Pre-requisites:

Follow these steps to make the best of your session:

1. Install these apps on your laptop:

(i) Zoom App for Video Call (Download Link)

(ii) Discord App to share resources and chat (Download Link) 

(iii) Burp suite for doing attacks on websites (Download Link)

2. We will be following hands on lab by Portswigger on Web Security Academy! Sign up here:

https://portswigger.net/web-security

3. Join the !nfinite HackQuarters Discord Server (you'll get the invite link on registration)

Format:

Folks will join in online and start studying and trying out lab. While we study in parallel, we can unmute the mics on zoom at specific times as below, to discuss our progress as we explore this concept and keep posting the links of resources in Discord channel.

Hola!

11:00 AM - 11:10 PM : Welcome and warm up, sharing resources to begin.

11:10 PM - 11:30 PM: Pomodoro session 1 , start reading about the topic, share resources on channel

11:30 PM - 11:40 PM: Share initial thoughts, next explorations

11:40 PM - 12 PM: Pomodoro Session 2 , go deeper

12:00 PM - 12:10 PM : Design one hands on task you'll want to try & share

12:10 PM - 12:45 PM: Try hands on with the tool

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM: Closing discussions.

Tada!