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Python for Offensive PenTest
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Python for Offensive PenTest

by Hussam Khrais
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preparing the attacker machine

In this section, we will prepare our Kali Linux machine as the attacker. Note that we are assuming that the operating system is already set up in VMware or VirtualBox. As of now, we will be using VirtualBox for all our chapters. 

We can check the version of any Linux OS by running the following cat command to display the content from the file /etc/os-release, which contains OS distribution data. We will be using Kali Linux version 2018.1, as you can see from the following screenshot:

It doesn't matter what your Kali version is. For this book, we will be using the latest version available at the time of writing. ...

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