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How to locate and extract the "RockYou" wordlist in Kali Linux
RockYou is one of the most popular wordlists that contains common used passwords. The history of rockyou was best explained in the Darknet Diaries episode 33. This is a great podcast and you can listen to it the episode here . As mentioned in the episode, the list is part of the default Kali Linux installation. Then again, it's archived and you have to extract it…
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How to install Tor in Kali Linux 2020 and fix "run Tor as root" error
In order to install Tor Browser on your Kali Linux, open your terminal and type: apt update Once this is complete, run * : apt-get install tor torbrowser-launcher Now, try and open Tor, either form the terminal of from your Applications menu: torbrowser-launcher In case you'll get the same error I got, “The Tor Browser Bundle should not be run as root. Exiting”,…
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Your first basic Kali Linux commands - you should actually know
Back in the years when I started messing around with Linux distro's, my first choices were Mandriva, Suse and Ubuntu. Since then, Mandriva became Mandrake. Otherwise, the rest of the distributions I used to work on, kept their names - btw, I loved Suse and Ubuntu. In the office, we managed to find out the admin passwords and we were able to install games on our o…
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Update and upgrade your Kali Linux installation with a script - second version
Howdy, pirates! In my previous (very old) tutorial , I tried to show you how to create a script that will automatically update and upgrade your Kali Linux installation. Since this post is from 2015, you might guess it's actually not working with the current version of Kali. So, I had to figure out something else. In case you're lazy enough to click on the lin…
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How to Install Nessus in Kali Linux
Nessus is a proprietary vulnerability scanner developed by Tenable, Inc. For more information you can visit their website here . Nessus should be a must-have for any penetration tester. Below are the steps on how to install Nessus in Kali Linux. Download the latest version from here - look for the Debian version (amd64.deb). At the time of writing this tutorial, the …
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How to increase the sound volume above 100% in Kali Linux
I have an older laptop, 15" display, good sound volume in Windows 10, but whenever I boot into Kali, the sound wasn't that good. So, how can you increase the sound volume above 100% in Kali Linux? Follow the tutorial below and you're good to go. Once in Kali Linux, open your console and type the code below: sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol …
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How to check your current version of Kali Linux - or any other Linux system
Since Kali Linux rolled out their newest version (as of last night/yesterday - yeah, local time is a bitch), many people wondered if they're using the latest version (or not!) of the operating system. Since the Kali Version I use is a "rolling" version, this means that if you update & upgrade, you're good to go. What is a "rolling" ve…
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Kali tutorial: How to install Virtualbox on Kali Linux
If you want to play around with different systems through the help of virtual machines or if you simply want to create your own pentesting virtual-lab for free, installing virtualbox is one of the best options for linux. Before installing virtualbox, you'll need to make sure that the below dependencies are added to your sources.list file: ## Regular repositorie…
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Create your first script - automatically update and upgrade your Kali Linux installation
Creating scripts is easy in Linux distributions, you just need access to any text editor - Linux has plenty available (gedit or gvim, to name just a few examples) and to some available neurons. In this example we'll use the update and upgrade commands and we'll create ourselves a script that once executed will automatically run the commands for us - this is t…
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