Overview of the OWASP BWA project
OWASP keeps a plethora of sub-projects, fueled by the efforts of many people around the world, with the aim of improving the experience of security professionals around the globe and raising awareness of web application security issues. One of the problems that ethical hackers encounter is finding targets that are free to attack without consequence in order to put their knowledge to the test. In the past, some organizations, such as web application security software vendors, put specific web applications on the web to allow the testing of the capabilities of software, or just to educate the public on web application security in general. Some of these applications have been removed or have become progressively harder to find, probably because they were discontinued or were designed to test older versions of application security software. The OWASP BWA project was started to provide people with a collection of some of these web applications to be used...