Why is Linux used for hacking?

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I'm new to Linux and really learning alot here. I have a lot of questions. I mean ALOT

But first I'll love to have someone here confirm this thought in my head.

I want to get into a network running windows Operating system. How can Linux be used to accomplish this task?

Hope to hear from you seniors.
 


Hi AlienGod! Like you I am a brand new member too! To answer your question, and I may not be totally right, but Linux is open source software. It can read other OS's files. Unlike like closed source systems, Linux developers have no reason to restrict the capabilities or control what the user does with the software, like Apple and Microsoft. The latter two could do the same as Linux but their developers choose to keep their product from reading other systems files. Heck, Windows won't even acknowledge a Linux drive, which I see as bad. The windows system knows it's there, but the way it's set up with a shared drive, well......I have seen Win 10 steal space when it see's space as "unallocated". I also think that is by design.
 
AlienGod said:
I want to get into a network running windows Operating system. How can Linux be used to accomplish this task?
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If you mean you want to create a home network, for example, that shares both Windows and Linux computers... you would configure Windows for TCP/IP networking (not "Windows Home Networking") and configure Linux with Samba. Google will offer many examples on how to do this.

If you mean you want to hack into someone else's Windows network, I don't think @Rob wants to have focused criminal training on this site, so you have to be careful about that.

It's a fine line between criminal hacking and "penetration testing" skills used by computer security professionals. Both do much the same thing with the same tools. Some here may have those skills, but not me.

Mostly we try to deal with more basic desktop and server problems, and help new users get comfortable as they break the Windows habit. Heavy-duty in depth security training may be better found on sites that specialize in that kind of thing, or in computer science courses at university.

Cheers
 
Good morning from sunny Southeast Queensland where the weather is to die for but I'd rather live to enjoy it.

atanere, as is often the case, it seems, had/has similar thoughts to mine and got in before me while I was hanging out the washing. Mundane, for a Wizard, I know.

Likewise the quote he has placed, I would have duplicated, with the question -

What is it you wish to achieve?

I have a little experience with Kali, which I have on two computers, but have yet to make myself properly acquainted. Likewise with Parrot, and I will be installing its latest offering, v3.8 either today or tomorrow.

Both of the above are Debian-based, but it is the RPM-based Distros whom many consider to be industry leaders in pen testing.

Red Hat, formed in 1993, provided for desktop users for a number of years, and virtually pioneered Linux server technology. With that success, it went to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) in the mid-noughties, and as part of that, included proprietary elements in its software. However, its open source option, Fedora, remains free and open source.

Red Hat's expertise was pivotal during the "shell shock" aka Bash Bug dramas of September 2014, which occurred around the time I was migrating to a totally Linux environment.

A similar story, vis-a-vis commercial Linux applies to another of the old-stagers from the 90s and also RPM-based, and that is German-based SUSE. It trades nowadays as SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), and too, it has its form for us users in OpenSUSE.

I mention the above, not to air my knowledge, but because this may be relevant to you and to others of The Viewers.

If you are familiar with MCSE (Microsoft Certified Software Engineer), then each of the above firms engage in Linux certification.

There are courses available through them, I am not aware of the costs, but I would be surprised if pen testing did not feature highly.

You could Google up eg "Linux pen(etration) testing", and be aware that search engine DuckDuckGo, which is an option in the Mozilla Firefox browser on many Distros -- whilst its output page is annoyingly long for my liking, it is possibly more focussed towards generating Linux -oriented answers.

Another term you could search under that is often used these days is "ethical hacking", and refers to the "White Hat" approach to security.

Cheers

Wizard
 
I'm learning alot.
Gratitude @Wizard and I really think it's "Ethical Hacking" I want to be involved in. I'm in just for the knowledge for the good of the community.

I appreciate all the post here.

AlienGod...
 
wizardfromoz said:
Good morning from sunny Southeast Queensland where the weather is to die for but I'd rather live to enjoy it.

atanere, as is often the case, it seems, had/has similar thoughts to mine and got in before me while I was hanging out the washing. Mundane, for a Wizard, I know.

Likewise the quote he has placed, I would have duplicated, with the question -

What is it you wish to achieve?

I have a little experience with Kali, which I have on two computers, but have yet to make myself properly acquainted. Likewise with Parrot, and I will be installing its latest offering, v3.8 either today or tomorrow.

Both of the above are Debian-based, but it is the RPM-based Distros whom many consider to be industry leaders in pen testing.

Red Hat, formed in 1993, provided for desktop users for a number of years, and virtually pioneered Linux server technology. With that success, it went to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) in the mid-noughties, and as part of that, included proprietary elements in its software. However, its open source option, Fedora, remains free and open source.

Red Hat's expertise was pivotal during the "shell shock" aka Bash Bug dramas of September 2014, which occurred around the time I was migrating to a totally Linux environment.

A similar story, vis-a-vis commercial Linux applies to another of the old-stagers from the 90s and also RPM-based, and that is German-based SUSE. It trades nowadays as SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), and too, it has its form for us users in OpenSUSE.

I mention the above, not to air my knowledge, but because this may be relevant to you and to others of The Viewers.

If you are familiar with MCSE (Microsoft Certified Software Engineer), then each of the above firms engage in Linux certification.

There are courses available through them, I am not aware of the costs, but I would be surprised if pen testing did not feature highly.

You could Google up eg "Linux pen(etration) testing", and be aware that search engine DuckDuckGo, which is an option in the Mozilla Firefox browser on many Distros -- whilst its output page is annoyingly long for my liking, it is possibly more focussed towards generating Linux -oriented answers.

Another term you could search under that is often used these days is "ethical hacking", and refers to the "White Hat" approach to security.

Cheers

Wizard
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Novell also had both Administrator and Engineer certifications back in the day. I had a home Novell server, with 10 user Lic starting with V3.5 all the way up to V6, before I gave it up. It was not cheap either!

Happy Trails
Paul
 
wizardfromoz said:
Good morning from sunny Southeast Queensland where the weather is to die for but I'd rather live to enjoy it.

atanere, as is often the case, it seems, had/has similar thoughts to mine and got in before me while I was hanging out the washing. Mundane, for a Wizard, I know.

Likewise the quote he has placed, I would have duplicated, with the question -

What is it you wish to achieve?

I have a little experience with Kali, which I have on two computers, but have yet to make myself properly acquainted. Likewise with Parrot, and I will be installing its latest offering, v3.8 either today or tomorrow.

Both of the above are Debian-based, but it is the RPM-based Distros whom many consider to be industry leaders in pen testing.

Red Hat, formed in 1993, provided for desktop users for a number of years, and virtually pioneered Linux server technology. With that success, it went to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) in the mid-noughties, and as part of that, included proprietary elements in its software. However, its open source option, Fedora, remains free and open source.

Red Hat's expertise was pivotal during the "shell shock" aka Bash Bug dramas of September 2014, which occurred around the time I was migrating to a totally Linux environment.

A similar story, vis-a-vis commercial Linux applies to another of the old-stagers from the 90s and also RPM-based, and that is German-based SUSE. It trades nowadays as SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), and too, it has its form for us users in OpenSUSE.

I mention the above, not to air my knowledge, but because this may be relevant to you and to others of The Viewers.

If you are familiar with MCSE (Microsoft Certified Software Engineer), then each of the above firms engage in Linux certification.

There are courses available through them, I am not aware of the costs, but I would be surprised if pen testing did not feature highly.

You could Google up eg "Linux pen(etration) testing", and be aware that search engine DuckDuckGo, which is an option in the Mozilla Firefox browser on many Distros -- whilst its output page is annoyingly long for my liking, it is possibly more focussed towards generating Linux -oriented answers.

Another term you could search under that is often used these days is "ethical hacking", and refers to the "White Hat" approach to security.

Cheers

Wizard
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Wiz,
Shouldn't you be animating a broom to do chores like carrying water, and hanging out laundry?:p:p
 
Droll Paul ... look where that got Mickey.
 
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