I guess I should start off by asking if anyone else is on HTB. I got in last week, so I haven’t had a whole lot of time to do work on it yet. Hoping to get a KVM switch in tomorrow that will allow me to do more.
I’m also working on getting a small lab up. Hopefully it will be up shortly. Who knows how long that will actually take though.
Great topic @SgtAwesomesauce. I will have to check out some of these sources. have dabbled in pen-testing before mostly with WiFi and some network stuff on my own hardware but overall still fairly new to it. Looking forward to where this goes and will definitely report back with my exploits in this.
Ive got some experince in all 3 types of hacking black,gray and white and i want to continue learning. Need to get a dedicated laptop that is good to go for a dedicated thing. Might just keep kali on its own partition with my new laptop
OneTwo things to note: I’ve had difficulty dual-booting kali with Solus, Pop OS and Fedora. Only ever tested UEFI, so I can’t say for sure if it’s a uefi or a Kali issue. I just gave up and left my elitebook with Kali installed. Also, they removed the broadcom STA drivers from the repo, so you’re SOL if you want to use them.
neat keeping kali on a separate partition is a pretty good idea. I’m not sure what approach I’ll take with this, In the past I had kali on a usb flash drive but thinking about having a dedicated kali install on a portable ssd attached to a sata-to-usb adapter instead so I can switch it between my desktop/laptop or whatever machine I want and still get decent performance.
General rule of thumb: either run kali in a VM, or run it on a machine you’re willing to have compromised. Especially if you’re taking part in a CTF. You never know if someone’s going to be watching for a connection to put a backdoor on your system.
Yeah, I have a laptop that I don’t mind wiping every now and again, so I use that one. It’s served me well but I happen to be one of those lucky bastards surrounded by hardware, so I understand if you don’t have access to dedicated hardware.
Well I still have my old 4690k machine I could use for that but also want kali on something portable for when I’ve got no access to my desktop, only device I have is the laptop I’m currently in the process of fixing but it’ll be my main travel device. In future I might see if I can pickup a fairly cheap laptop for messing around with.
I’ve got the G3 model of this. Damn good price if you ask me. Clit mouse, intel wireless, low-res screen is a minus, but that’s what you get for $300. You’ll be spending most of your time in a terminal anyways, so it’s not a bad option.
Thats not too bad, I’ll have to see what I can find in my area. realistically I’ll likely end up getting a better laptop than my current one as my main and use the old one for kali instead, its from 2010 and fairly dated
Ah, that’s a good idea. Kali really doesn’t need a ton of horsepower. It can run on lxde (or xfce, I always confuse those two), so it’s not super demanding out of the box, and the only time you’ll ever need horsepower is when you’re bruteforcing, but you should really SSH into a machine that has a GPU for that.