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Graphical exploits with Armitage

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Graphical exploits with Armitage

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- [Male] Armitage is a great visual tool for carrying out both scanning and attacks on targets. However, it's not installed by default in Kali, so the first thing we need to do is download it from the fast and easy hacking site. This is now in my downloads folder. I'll unzip this into the user share applications folder. Okay, we're extracted, and ready to go. We'll need to start it using sudo, as it does require privileged operation, and we may need to start postgres ql, as well, if the service isn't already running. The Armitage screen has a menu at the top and three panels. The four key modules are shown on the top left panel. The network targets this Armitage knows about on the top right, and the Metasploit terminal window at the bottom. We'll run Armitage through it's graphical interface, but we can see the equivalent Metasploit commands in the console. To begin with, let's scan the local network by running nmap from…

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