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Overview of the tools in Kali Linux

Overview of the tools in Kali Linux

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Overview of the tools in Kali Linux

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An Overview of the Tools in Kali Linux. Our learning objectives are to learn about the various tools available in Kali Linux and installing some of these tools that will help you in this course and in your hacking journey. So if you see that dragon up on the left-hand side of your Kali VM, you can search for different applications. They're grouped very nicely, as you can see like Number 1 is information gathering, two is vulnerability analysis. So they group things very logically and very nicely in the Kali VM. So they typically fall -- these applications fall into either the command line or to a GUI. So I used Windows a lot when I was younger, and I'm used to seeing Windows pop up and nice graphical user interfaces and I just preferred that. So when I started my hacking journey, the GUI version of Nmap -- was Nmap, I started using that and I was more comfortable with that. But as I got more proficient as a Pentester, I greatly preferred using the command line. So now, I like using…

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