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2. Hacking Environment

Sanjib Sinha

(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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