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Hack the system

you followed our handy guide on the previous pages, then you’ll already have augmented your Kali Light installation with , a port-scanning utility par excellence and a vital part of any pen-tester’s arsenal. As mentioned on the DVD page (there will be the standard complement of two next month) it’s possible to ‘upgrade’ this to the full-fat Kali with apt install kali-linux-all , but there’s no way we could provide even the pithiest summary of the 14GB of tooling that command would bestow upon you. If you just want the most popular tools, then apt install kalilinux-top10 will only cost your VM about 600MB. We’re going to play it frugal and only install what we talk about, because that’s how

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