How To Build A Low Budget Hacking Practice Lab At Home

This article will walk you through the setup I use for my walkthroughs. It is simple, minimalistic, and can be setup in under 5 minutes once you have all the requirements.

Strings of incomprehensible characters in green font on a black background scroll across the screen. The screen glitches and an alert box pops up with the words ACCESS GRANTED....

At least that's how hacking works in the movies. It involves a lot of scrolling binary digits and exciting graphics. This makes it seem to be a god-level art only the elite can master. Well...it is a god-level art, but you can also master it. Its not magic, its understanding which is brought about by curiosity. That said, you can not just jump into the wild before you master the basics of this art. You need a safe space to practice and here we'll build one such "sanctum".

Before we begin, I'd like to stress that this post is for educational purposes only and the information contained there in is not intended to empower any malicious intents. Disclaimers out of the way, lets get hacking!!!

Human Stupidity, that’s why Hackers always win.
-Med Amine Khelifi

Choosing An OS

There are a variety of operating systems out in the wild. Windows being one of the most popular. Among hackers, however, Linux is the most popular. The one I use is Kali Linux. Its the first Linux distro that I ever used so I stuck with it through the years, from the days I used to dual boot it with Windows, til now where its the sole OS on my working machine. You gotta love Offensive Security, right? The other option is Parrot OS. This is another pentesting Linux distro that comes, as Kali does, loaded with hacking tools. I'm sure there are alternatives to Kali and Parrot but these are the most popular pentesting distros. I'll leave the choice of distro to you but I recommend Kali by Offensive Security.

Hardware Install Or Virtual Machine?

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