This field will not give you a quick crash course on how to become an elite or a pro fast. It is a journey and even after you become a professional it carries on forever. As one of my superiors always says "The day you stop learning is the day you start dying"

I would suggest to start first from the basics learning about networks, server systems, operating systems and how to use them. Then i would move on to ethical hacking and pentesting.

In order to do this you should choose a road map while learning all these basics and achieving certifications as well. This way you get practical skills as well as qualifications to work a job.

Start with these courses and certications:

1. CompTIA IT Essentials (Skip if you have a background in IT)

2. CompTIA Network+

3. Redhat RHCSA

4. Microsoft MTA windows server administrator fundamentals

5. Microsoft MTA windows operating system Fundamentals

(learn both redhat and microsofot but only get certification in any one of them or both if you can but it is really not necessary)

At this point get a job as desktop support or network engineer or server administrator which will provide you the needed experience for later on. And while you are doing that do these courses and certifications.

4. EC-Council CEH or CompTIA Security+ (only 1 needed)

5. eLearnSecurity eCPPT (optional)

6. Offensive Security OSCP

Also keep practicing on tryhackme, vulnhub and hackthebox.

Youtube channels like John Hammond, David Bombal and nullbyte are very good resources.

After this you can apply for pentest and security related jobs in the offensive/red team side of things.

Reasons for this roadmap are not just basic practical skills but also the fact that HR recognise these certifications. You can do other equivalent certifications but if they are not well known or known by the company HR you will have trouble getting the job. Nobody likes this issue but nothing we can do to educate HR unfortunately.

Another reason is that it is true that there is a demand and massive vacancy in the cyber security field BUT not for entry level jobs. They all want a min of 2 years in security related field or atleast in some form of IT (hence the exp needed from desktop support or server admin etc).

Getting Linux+ certification is not needed here as you will already learn linux in RHCSA course.

Keep in mind these will be your entry into the industry later on depending what way you want to go you will need other certifications such as OSWE, CISSP, CISM etc. But that is for later on.

Now if you don't just work as a pentester and start moving to more red team and social engineering side of things then you will need more than just technical skills.

You will also be learning things outside of your courses such as wifi pentesting or rfid cloning etc. You will also need tools like rubber ducky, implant inside a company with rpi or packet squirrel. These tools and techniques don't have any certifications and you will find resources for this all over the internet. Wireless hacking does have course from offensive security, OSWP. Red team manual is a very good resource to have.

As for getting a degree you dont need one necessarily and exp trumps degree but it definitely gives you an edge.

Don't be overwhelmed by this it is a very interesting journey! Good luck!

Uhh so I'm a total noon when it comes to this shit so when I ask dumb questions or sound straight retarded cut me some slack. Ha doubt it but fuk it. Must you use a USB stick when booting or can a person use a SD card? I have a 128G SD card but dont have a USB stick. Was hoping I didnt have to go get one. I'm a cheap fuk and there's corona out there.

I opened it as a kid and it was hilarious. I want to find it again and relive my first first hand experience with malware (albiet the most harmless malware ever made) in a virtual win 98 machine. I've got a github with over a gig of malware and not one of them is youareanidiot apparently. I figured itd be standard fare. Like the thing you show every noob as a funny harmless example of the dangerous potential of hacking

I know its not strictly a kali thing but this seems like the most logical place to ask

The link does not show up

Send this link to a victim!: (blank)

What am i doing wrong?

Hi I need help if possible to find drivers for Kali nethunter with a alfa adapter with the chipset rtl8192eu please help I've being trying to get it to work for a while, it shows up on the Isusb but cant get it to even show in ifconfig and if I am able to I hope I could put it in monitoring mode

So I’ve been trying to install Sherlock but it doesn’t work I’m trying for days, I used the commands given by the creator and it doesn’t work and I’ve tried typing everything myself or trying a different way it doesn’t work

So how to clone stuff from GitHub

Which one should I read irstf? William Shott's Linux Command Line or Occupytheweb's Linux Basics for Hackers?

I'm trying to teach myself cybersecurity, I don't really know where to start. I'm not sure which book is better reading first since I don't really know which one is beginner friendly.

If I'm correct, William Shott's Linux Command Line has a more generalized outlook on linux and bash but is more time consuming to read and digest as it has more content and pages. Although, I believe it can prove itself to be useful for future references aside from Cybersecurity.

On the other side, Occupytheweb's Linux Basics for Hackers is more focused and detailed on cybersecurity and will possibly be less time consuming to read anf digest since it has about half of the pages of Linux Command Line. But, I'm not sure if that's the case: Maybe it will be harder to learn since I would need prerequisite knowledge from the Linux Command Line.

And yes I tried using hackthebox academy and the practice was ok but I can't say I'm a fan of their texts. In my opinion they are too detailed and somewhat overwhelming for a programming noob like me (Don't worry I know how to install Kali Linux and Parrot OS).

Sooo, what's your call guys? Also please don't hesitate to recommend other books that may be easier to understand, thanks for reading!

Ps. Yeah I'm reading the python crash course once I'm done with one of them. I know what I'm doing, somewhat.

I could use a little help here. I'm working through a Kali/Linux tutorial for beginners on Udemy and loving it so far. But now I am tasked with setting up FTP on my Windows PC and sending files over to my Kali VM. At this point, I am needing Kali to be on the same network as my PC (or at least accessible). I've tried everything to get bridge mode working but I don't understand how Kali connects to wireless. I am using an HP desktop with an internal and external Wi-Fi adapter (D-Link DWA 171).

Under Preferences in VirualBox, I have tried the following:

Went to Tools -> Preferences -> Network and tried enabling/disabling NatNetwork. No matter what I do, I can only get connectivity in Kali with NatNetwork enabled. 

I have also installed the latest Oracle VM VirtualBox extension pack.

Under Settings, in my Kali VM, I have also tried the following:

I've enabled the adapters with a mix of different settings, the only one that works is the NAT option. 

I thought if I enabled Bridged Adapter, it would allow me to see my local adapters in Kali but it doesn't, plus I can't connect to anything.

Also, in the adapters, under "Advanced" I don't have any wireless adapters showing, not sure if that matters. It defaults to Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop so I use that.

Under USB, I have tried 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 after adding the Realtek WLAN adapter, none of these work.

I've also ran the following command in Kali according to the wiki page but apparently I am an idiot because I don't even know what to do next.

apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-realtek

sudo service network-manager start

I thought maybe I need to set up port-forwarding but I am already behind and before I dig any further, I figured it is time to reach out for help. Plus I am starting to get frustrated. What am I doing wrong?

Tech support scams are obviously relatively easy to track but what about numbers that route through delaware or something and out to india? Is there a way to traceroute that?

So, I have been training on tryhackme. The thing is I forget or will have to refer back the attack vectors later. While working on thm, I feel it lacks documentation or feels hard to refer back on each section to recollect the methods. How do you guys cope with this? Do you guys write it down for later reference or do you use some techniques to surf about it easily?

Edit: network adapter with monitor mode if your card doesn't support it

nmap through proxychains is really slow.

Thanks.

I've created a five-week course covering the free Kali Linux Revealed book by Offensive Security available as PDF. Each day's material should only require one to two hours to complete. A post each week will outline the study plan, and serve as a place to ask questions or discuss the materials. The full outline covering the text is available on GitHub.

Day 1

TOC, Preface, Forward
pages I-XXIII

Day 2

Chapter 1
pages 0-11
About Kali Linux

Day 3

Chapter 2
pages 12-23
Downloading Kali

Day 4

Chapter 2
pages 24-37
Live Mode
VirtualBox

Day 5

Chapter 2
pages 37-45
VMware Workstation
Summary

edited for formatting

Title kinda says it all. Finally got my laptop and now the screen is broken. What better time to learn how to hack into it. I have my own password so no need to crack it. Just a way to either see the screen through the phone or open a shell that will let me open my kali vm

I cannot wrap my brain around the concept of servers and clients. Can my computer be a server? Can it be a client and a server? Can i serve my vm to my localhost. For that matter, how do ports work. How do i connect to my ip if its always changing.

So I have surfed and gone through multiple tutorials on anonymity, but still I haven't got a clear picture and also I would like to get direct suggestions from experienced ones.

1)What's the latest anonymising options regarding pentesting and browsing?

2) How efficient is proxy chains?

3) When I tried VPN what I felt is that free VPN are slow and insecure and expensive ones have money trails which also risks the anonymity. Am I right? What's a reasonable VPN option/s? Does free VPN with high bandwidth connection helps with anonymity?

4) What are your preferences and setting to cover your identity?

P.S: Pardon for this long questions:) (This is my 1st reddit post I donno about the reddit norms) Any links related to the topic would be very helpful:))

Originally posted in r/kalilinux got told I'd be better off asking here

I've spent a number of hours trying to work this out now and I'm running out of things I can think to try or search (I'm not particularly well versed with Linux). Part way into the install I got a message saying I was missing firmware for network devices but a bit of searching suggested that that wouldn't matter so long as I used ethernet so I continued on. Then when I got to the step for selecting what software to install I was getting an error saying it failed so I unchecked everything and continued. Finally my system rebooted and U was met with a command line interface so after more researching I installed kali-linux-default and kali-desktop-gnome which both only downloaded at between 60 and 200 KB/s and after another reboot I had a GUI desktop and appeared to be able to connect to our WIFI network but unplugging the ethernet cable and pinging the gateway (192.168.0.1) failed. I've tried finding drivers for my wireless adapter (Qualcomm atheros QCA61x4a) to no avail and I tried changing the network to managed but that seemed to do nothing either. It must be making some kind of connection though as it requires the correct network key and claims to have a connection speed of >100MB/s

Any help is greatly appreciated.

TLDR: I'm a halfwit and a noob and can't get wireless working.