August 31, 2022

394.5 – A Distro of a Different Kaliber

44 minutes

1:00 Linux Innards

37:03 Vibrations from the Ether

39:56 Check This Out

41:10 Housekeeping & Announcements

In our Innards section, Bill falls down a rabbit hole called “pentesting.”

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Linux Innards

This week we will be taking a look at Penetration Testing Distributions.

According to Wikipedia, A penetration test, colloquially known as a pen test or ethical hacking, is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system; this is not to be confused with a vulnerability assessment. The test is performed to identify weaknesses (also referred to as vulnerabilities), including the potential for unauthorized parties to gain access to the system’s features and data, as well as strengths, enabling a full risk assessment to be completed.

Let’s take a look at a couple of the more popular pen-testing offerings out there. For the sake of this show, I’ve installed two of those options in KVM virtual machines;

Kali Linux

BlackArch

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Housekeeping & Announcements

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Wrap-up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee

Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], other information found at It’s Moss dot com

Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org

Norbert – [email protected]

Nishant – [email protected], riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on Discord, maverick00783 @ Steam

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The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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