Full-Stack Pentesting Laboratory: 100% Hands-On

Two-Day Interactive (Classroom) Training - OWASP New Zealand Day 2025

Abstract

Modern IT systems are increasingly complex, making full-stack expertise more essential than ever. That’s why diving into full-stack pentesting is crucial—you will gain the skills needed to master modern attack vectors and implement effective defensive countermeasures.

Course Details

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, 2-3 September 2025

Time: 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (NZST) each day

Instructor: Dawid Czagan (Silesia Security Lab)

Course Fee: NZ $1,000.00 (plus GST and ticketing fees)

Registration Site: https://events.humanitix.com/owaspnz2025-training

Maximum Enrolment: 50 attendees

Prerequisites

To get the most of this training intermediate knowledge of web application security is needed.
Students should have experience in using a proxy, such as Burp Suite Proxy or Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), to analyze or modify the traffic.

What Students Should Bring and Do Before Class

Students will need a laptop with 64-bit operating system, at least 8 GB RAM, 35 GB free hard drive space, administrative access, ability to turn off AV/firewall and VMware Player/Fusion installed (64-bit version).
Prior to the training, make sure there are no problems with running x86_64 VMs.

What Will Students Be Provided With

Students will be handed in a VMware image with a specially prepared lab environment to play with all attacks, vulnerabilities and techniques presented in this training.
When the training is over, students can take the complete lab environment home (after signing a non-disclosure agreement) to hack again at their own pace.

Special Bonus

The ticket price includes FREE access to my 6 online courses:

Fuzzing with Burp Suite Intruder
Exploiting Race Conditions with OWASP ZAP
Case Studies of Award-Winning XSS Attacks: Part 1
Case Studies of Award-Winning XSS Attacks: Part 2
How Hackers Find SQL Injections in Minutes with Sqlmap
Web Application Security Testing with Google Hacking

Course Description

For each attack, vulnerability and technique presented in this training, there is a lab exercise to help you develop your skills step by step. What’s more, when the training is over, you can take the complete lab environment home to hack again at your own pace.

I found security bugs in many companies including Google, Yahoo, Mozilla, Twitter and in this training I’ll share my experience with you.

After completing this training, you will have learned about:

Hacking cloud applications
API hacking tips & tricks
Data exfiltration techniques
OSINT asset discovery tools
Tricky user impersonation
Bypassing protection mechanisms
CLI hacking scripts
Interesting XSS attacks
Server-side template injection
Hacking with Google & GitHub search engines
Automated SQL injection detection and exploitation
File read & file upload attacks
Password cracking in a smart way
Hacking Git repos
XML attacks
NoSQL injection
HTTP parameter pollution
Web cache deception attack
Hacking with wrappers
Finding metadata with sensitive information
Hijacking NTLM hashes
Automated detection of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities
Extracting passwords
Hacking Electron applications
Establishing reverse shell connections
RCE attacks
XSS polyglot
and more …

What Students Say About My Trainings

References are attached to my LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawid-czagan-85ba3666/). They can also be found here: https://silesiasecuritylab.com/services/training/#opinions – training participants from companies such as Oracle, Adobe, ESET, ING, …

Your Instructor

Dawid Czagan is an internationally recognized security researcher and trainer. He is listed among top hackers at HackerOne. Dawid Czagan has found security bugs in Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and many others. Due to the severity of many bugs, he received numerous awards for his findings.

Dawid Czagan shares his security experience in his hands-on trainings. He delivered trainings at key industry conferences such as DEF CON (Las Vegas), Hack In The Box (Amsterdam), CanSecWest (Vancouver), 44CON (London), Hack In Paris (Paris), NorthSec (Montreal), HITB GSEC (Singapore), BruCON (Ghent) and for many corporate clients. His students include security specialists from Oracle, Adobe, ESET, ING, Red Hat, Trend Micro, Philips and government sector (references are attached to Dawid Czagan’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawid-czagan-85ba3666/. They can also be found here: https://silesiasecuritylab.com/services/training/#opinions).

Dawid Czagan is the founder and CEO at Silesia Security Lab. To find out about the latest in his work, you are invited to subscribe to his newsletter (https://silesiasecuritylab.com/newsletter) and follow him on Twitter (@dawidczagan), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-sIlaM1xXmetFtEfqtOqg), and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawid-czagan-85ba3666/).