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Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python

Name: Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python
Author: Sanjib Sinha
ISBN: 9781484225417

by Sanjib Sinha

December 2016

Beginner

197 pages

4h 18m

English

Apress

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Sanjib Sinha, Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2541-7_2

2. Hacking Environment

Sanjib Sinha¹

(1)Howrah, West Bengal, India

The very first thing that you need is a virtual machine . As I said before, I have Ubuntu as my default operating system and inside my virtual machine I have installed two operating systems—one is Windows XP and the other is Kali Linux.

Technically, from now on I would mention Windows XP and Kali Linux as my virtual machines. Kali Linux is a Linux distribution that comes up with many useful hacking tools. So I strongly suggest using it as your virtual machine. You may also read the documentation page of Kali Linux, which will also be an immense help.

At the same time, I’d not suggest ...

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