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Kali Linux Essential Training

With Malcolm Shore Liked by 237 users
Duration: 2h 48m Skill level: Beginner Released: 1/30/2024

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For ethical hackers, from beginners through to the most experienced professionals, Kali Linux provides the most effective platform from which to run penetration tests. In this course, cybersecurity expert Malcolm Shore introduces you to the set of tools necessary for efficient and effective ethical hacking: Kali Linux running in the VirtualBox environment, the Metasploitable system and an OWASP Juice Shop website to use as a target for testing. Explore the key tools in the Kali Linux toolset and find out how they can be used to carry out ethical hacking tests. Plus, learn about Vulnhub, hashcat for password cracking, the GVM (OpenVAS) vulnerability scanner, using hydra for password spraying, and more. This course helps you to become competent in the basic tools used for ethical hacking.

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4.6 out of 5

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  • Charles N. Osborne Charles N. Osborne

    Charles N. Osborne

    Experienced IT Support Professional with Military & leadership background.

    5/5 February 5, 2025
    Overall, the course is great. The information is quite interesting and it's a lot of useful knowledge; however, the delivery of the instruction is quite monotone and not very engaging. If I HAD to nitpick one thing, that would be it.
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    Jabo Justin

    Visionary Data-Scientist & AI/Data Engineering Specialist| Cybersecurity & Cloud-Security Strategist| Agile-Project-M-Scrum-Leader | Innovative IT…

    5/5 November 23, 2024
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  • Practice while you learn 1 exercise file
  • Test your knowledge 6 quizzes
  • Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone

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