Kali Linux Hacking Lab for Beginners

In this lecture you are going to learn what Virtual Machine is and how it can be used to help you learn how to hack!

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.  For more information, visit https://www.VirtualBox.org/wiki/VirtualBox.

Kali Linux is a Linux distribution which includes tools designed specifically for the penetration testing or
digital forensics of a system or a network. It is open source which means anyone can legally download
and use it for free. It includes tools for every ethical hacking need ranging from passive intelligence
gathering all the way to active attacks that can be carried out on a target network or system.

Offensive Security offers a virtual image for download especially designed for VirtualBox. Downloading
the image instead of the installation file allows us to entirely skip the operating system installation and
just power on the virtual machine for immediate use.

In this lecture you will learn how to work efficiently with the Kali Linux Operating System.  We will cover the layout of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), how to manage and use workspaces, how to find and launch applications, how to customize your operating system, how to create user accounts with the GUI, change or disable the automatic screen lock setting, and more.

The terminal is a command line system similar to Windows Command Prompt. You can complete many actions from the terminal and is often faster than the user interface. It does how take quite a bit of practice in order to memorize all the different commands you will want to use, but with Google at your side, you will have no issues working in the terminal.

To launch the terminal, you can right-click on the desktop and choose “open Terminal”. Alternatively, you may select Applications in the top left, and then choose “Terminal”.

A VirtualBox Host-Only network allows our Kali Linux VM to communicate with its host computer (the computer you use to run the VM) and any other VMs attached to the same Host-Only network. In this lecture we are going to create a Host-Only network and configure our Kali Linux VM to use it.

Footprinting is the process of gathering data about a certain target, usually for the purpose of exploiting that information to compromise the target. Some of the information collected might be IP ranges, system naming convention, software, open ports, services running and user account names. This information can vary depending on the type of attack.

NMAP (Network Mapper) is an open source tool used for things such as network discovery, auditing and port scanning.  It is compatible with both Windows and UNIX and even has an optional GUI that can be used.

NMAP is a very useful tool in the reconnaissance process but it can be very useful for both offensive and defensive security.   There are many different types of scan you can run with NMAP.  To display some the basic uses you can type “nmap’ in a terminal window.   This will show the basic commands associated with NMAP.

In this lecture you are going to download and import two virtual machines; a FTP server VM and an FTP client VM. Once we download the VMs we will connect them to our VirtualBox Host-Only network and make sure we can communicate between our client / server VM and that our Kali Linux VM can communicate with the FTP server.

Now you are going to use Wireshark to capture packets that are being sent over the network. Once we begin capturing all the packets being sent over the network we are going to initiate an FTP connection between our FTP server and FTP client. Once that is done we will stop the Wireshark capture and analyze the packets to see if we captured the username and password that was sent over the network.

In this lecture you are going to learn how you can use WireShark to capture files that are sent over the network via FTP.

In this lecture you are going to setup your personal Wordpress Hacking Lab with a special prebuilt VirtualBox Image made just for this course!

In this lecture you are going to learn how to footprint a Wordpress Website using the various tools available to you with Kali Linux.

In this lecture I am going to show you how you cannot brute force a WordPress website.

This lecture will explain how you can get your certificate of completion.