From the course: Ethical Hacking: Vulnerability Analysis

Installing Kali Linux

From the course: Ethical Hacking: Vulnerability Analysis

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Installing Kali Linux

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- [Instructor] When conducting ethical hacking you're going to need some tools. Kali Linux provides you with nearly every tool you'll possibly need. As you can see, I'm at the web page and it says our most advanced penetration testing distribution ever. And if you scroll down here, it tells us a little bit about Kali Linux, and you could read some of this information and it is a Linux distribution. Now you can go to downloads and download Kali Linux and here's where we can see all of our choices. And as you can see, there's a hash value there that's offered that you can check for the integrity of the file. Now, one of the things I do when dealing with students and also presentations is providing a pre-made virtual image. So I'm at this website, osboxes.org. OSBoxes provides us with pre-made images. And if we go to about us, that'll bring up this page here. This tells us a little bit about OSBoxes, as it provides ready to use Unix Linux virtual machines. And over here, there's an opportunity to donate and support this project. So we'll go to site map, and here we can see all of the possible operating systems that you can download and they're ready to go. Again, as I said, this is great for students and also teachers. If you're teaching any of this content, you can just grab one of these and then you're good to go. So here's mine, I'll scroll down and we'll get Kali Linux and select that, it again tells us about Kali Linux. And then down below, we see our choices. We'll scroll down down here and here you can select virtual box or VMware and you can see different versions and I would choose the latest one but you want to go to information and that's because where you're going to see the username and the password. So we see that the username is OSBoxes and the password's osboxes.org. And another thing is you can see it includes the virtual box guest edition, which is nice. Now I'm in virtual box and I'll select new. And we'll say what the name is after I downloaded it and it will take a while cause it's a pretty large file. We'll name this Kali Linux Jasper. And I'll accept the default memory size because we're really just using this for testing. And now here's where it says create the machine and the hard disk. Well, we're going to use an existing virtual hard disk file and we'll have to go get it and it's in the downloads and now we'll create it. And now we need to power it on. It prompts us and lets us know that the auto capture keyboard is also already turned on and it'll go to full screen mode. Here's where we'll put the username route and the password, osboxes.org. Okay. You've installed Kali Linux on a virtual machine and now you're ready to go.

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