Many aspiring hackers are unfamiliar with Linux having learned computer basics in a Windows or Mac environment. Sometimes this unfamiliarity is the single most important obstacle to mastering the essential skills to become a professional white hat hacker. For many good reasons, Linux is THE only hacking platform. That having

In many cases, the greatest hurdle to becoming a white hat hacker is proficiency with the command line (cli) Linux. This series is designed specifically for those with aspirations of becoming a pentester/white hat hacker, but lack the basic CLI Linux skills.     Aspiring Hackers just starting with Linux are

Welcome back, my aspiring hackers! In part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the file system, the cd or change directory command and some other Linux basics. In Part 2 of this series, I showed you how to find stuff in Linux. In this tutorial we will be

From working with thousands of aspiring hackers, I have found that very often the greatest hurdle to getting started in hacking is unfamiliarity with Linux. After years of working with the GUI’s of MAC and Windows, newbies in this field get scared away by the command line and Linux. Overcoming

One of the most fundamental tasks in Linux or–for that matter–any operating system, is adding and removing software. We often need to install software that did not come with our distribution or remove unwanted software. In Debian (of which Kali and Ubuntu belong to), the software package manager is aptitude.

I’ve been writing these Linux tutorials in an attempt to fill the void in the education of some aspiring hackers into the Linux operating system. Without good Linux skills, the world of hacking is largely closed door to you. There is a lot to know, and in this tutorial, we’ll

Managing the User Environment Among the areas that Linux newcomers find problematic, managing the user environment variables might be the most obscure. Although Windows operating systems have environment variables, most users seldom–if ever–manage their environment variables. To get the most from our Linux hacking system, you need to both understand

As I have mentioned several times in my previous Linux tutorials, nearly everything in Linux is a file, and very often they are text files. For instance, all of the configuration files in Linux are text files. To reconfigure an application in Linux, we simply need to open the configuration

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In this continuing series on Linux Basics for Hackers, I now want to address Loadable Kernel Modules (LKMs). LKM’s are critical to the Linux administrator as they provide them the capability to add functionality to the kernel without having to recompile the kernel. Things like