Thursday, November 8, 2012

Want to practice penetration testing???

Legally of course...this is not something you just try on your neighbor's systems. Create a lab at home and have at it.

You will find these penetration testing distribution(Operating Systems) scattered all over the Internet for download...yes it's free. There is a learning curve for those of you not familiar with Linux commands but repetition will create muscle memory.

The most common Operating System that is used is Backtrack (Linux Distribution built off of Ubuntu). Yes, Ubuntu! If you're familiar with that, you should pick it up quicker than most. You can download it here

Here are some others:


Need to restart networking using Linux

Nothing in IT is a stupid question.

You need to restart your network interface without having to take the long route and rebooting your system?

Do this:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart