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Penetration testing is a form of ethical hacking in which one uses tools to see whether a system can be penetrated. This is usually done in the professional world by professional analysts, and by request of the owner of the system to be tested.

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Problem when trying to use aireplay-ng and mdk3 with airgeddon

When i was trying out evil twin access point attack on my network using airgeddon everything went smoothly except when my fake ap is up airgeddon isn't able to do deauthentication attack so i tried ...
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Assigning IP addresses to eth0

I'm totally new to both linux and pentesting. I'm following the HTB academy, but I'm stuck on assigning IP addresses to eth0 (enp1s0 on my machine). I started with sudo ifconfig enp1s0 up, then assign ...
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XP pen 15.6 artist display whitening in Ubuntu 22.10

I have installed ubuntu 22.10 and installed drivers of XP pen 15.6. I am facing display whitening issues at the bottom of the tabletas shown below: So if you can see in the image, half of the pen tab ...
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How to installl inflator for reaver in ubuntu

I really like the gui for reaver inflator (you can put your card into monitor mode and start your pentest attacks easily) I have always use it with wifislax, but no idea of how to install it on ubuntu ...
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How can I get metasploit for 18.04? [duplicate]

Just got Ubuntu mini 18.04 and I'm planning on making it specially designed for hacking & pentesting. I've got the basics such as nmap and some custom scripts but I'm wondering how to get the god ...
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Do I need to swap partition? How Large? [duplicate]

My system: Dell XPS15 9550 Processor: i7 6700HQ RAM: 16GB DDR4 Disk: Samsung pm951 (512GB NVMe SSD) GPU: 960M I'm new to Linux so I will dual boot Windows 10 + Ubuntu 16.04. I'm a network ...
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Detect port scans performed by own computer

I was told that my working PC is massively scanning the ports of somebody else's PC, which is not intended by me. How can I find out which program is doing that? Following the advice of ByteCommander'...
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Wash -i mon0 no output

I just swapped to Ubuntu 14.04 from Arch. I was installing some pentest tools from kali, the issue I'm having is when I run: sudo wash -i mon0 -c 6 It has no output I'm only shown: $ sudo wash -i ...
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How to install pentesting tools?

I am learning pentesting. I don't want to install BackTrack as my main OS. Instead, I'd like to install the relevant tools on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. My understanding is that it is possible to install ...
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