The objective of this guide is to show how to install the Java Development Kit (JDK) on Kali Linux. This is needed by Java developers and programmers in order to compile and run Java applications. It’s also required for security tools that are built in Java. In this tutorial you will learn: Installing Java JDK via…
Many of the hacking tools on Kali Linux require root privileges to execute, not to mention all the ordinary Linux commands that require it. If you’re sick of having to preface commands with sudo and typing in the root password often, we have a couple of solutions for you. You can login to the root user in terminal with the sudo -i command,…
If you’re running Kali Linux inside a VMware virtual machine, installing the VMware Tools software will help you get the most out of the system. VMware Tools will give the machine more capabilities, such as a shared clipboard with the host system, drag and drop file transfer, and automatic window resizing. This makes copying data to and from…
When installing a content management system for your website, it’s easy to get lazy and assume that it’s going to do all the work for you. A CMS like Joomla certainly does make things more convenient, and lets you publish a polished website very quickly, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take some extra time…
If you want to run Kali Linux on your system but you already have Windows 10 installed, you have a couple of options. One thing you could do is install Kali Linux in a virtual machine, as we’ve shown in our tutorials for installing Kali in VMware and installing Kali in VirtualBox. The other option is to create a dual…
Although Kali Linux is notorious for being the distro of choice for penetration testers, hackers, and cyber security experts, it doesn’t mean that the operating system is not also vulnerable to exploits. If you are new to Kali Linux or to penetration testing in general, the first step is to learn how to secure your own system,…
pip is the package manager for the Python coding language. It can be installed on a Linux system and then used on the command line to download and install Python packages and their requisite dependencies. Python is a common language to use for hacking scripts, and on Kali Linux, the biggest use for pip would be to install needed dependencies…
There are multiple ways to set up an HTTP web server in Kali Linux. Apache, NGINX, and Python are a few of the ways this can be accomplished. Since you are looking to set up a web server on Kali, it might be safe to assume that you are trying to spoof some other website, or dupe users…
Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers and is available across many different devices. It can also run on Kali Linux, although Mozilla Firefox is the default web browser and comes preinstalled with the distro. Installing Google Chrome on Kali is pretty easy, but not as straightforward as you might think. Since Chrome is…
Setting your system time and time zone is usually done when initially installing Kali. If you skipped that step during installation, have switched time zones, or your system clock has drifted out of sync, we’ll help you get it fixed. In this tutorial, we will show you how to change the time in Kali Linux from both command line and…