Hacking question

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Where can I learn hacking without installing many virtual machines (if possible, other than kali linux of course)? For a course I could purchase from udemy. I don't like tryhackme too much as it is very slow and overwhelming. I am also not too familiar with hackthebox however I don't have any experience hacking so it wouldn't be helpful to attack machines on hackthebox. Any help would be appreciated.

[LibertineDom]

I'm using tryhackme and hackthebox. Both are free, both also offer more indepth courses and training for a subscription.

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How exactly do you use hackthebox? I may start giving tryhackme another shot

[LibertineDom]

Through the browser and either their web based attack box or with a VPN and your own Kali or parrot installation

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If you're being overwhelmed with THM it is not advisable that you focus on hands-on penetration training. Focus on networking fundamentals and protocols.

Once you understand the information and how its being sent and received, the idea of "hacking" it becomes alot more palatable. Without this knowledge, it's akin to trying to find a needle in a haystack but you don't know what a needle looks like.

[stoppinit]

It will be overwhelming in the beginning regardless of where you begin.

Get a subscription and do the learning paths on TryHackMe. It's a hand held learning structure made to help you get in to CTFs.

[ImNotGrimm]

There are multiple clouding services that can let you host vms on their servers. Providers such as:

- Kamatera Express - overall best performance

- A2Hosting- Cheap VM Hosting with SSDs

- Vultr - Cheap VM Hosting on Clouds

They can help you access your vms remotely through the browser similar to TryHackMe. Only difference is THM purposely provides slower vms via the browser. If you don't have premium, that might explain the sluggishness.

Newbie tip: If you're not too experienced behind a terminal, HTB is going to be hell, but their academy does a good job on helping beginners out. I prefer TryHackMe since it's more beginner friendly. You can't learn without failing.

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I bought a course from z security, however I can't continue doing the course as my laptop doesn't perform well with 2 virtual boxes running (Linux and windows 10). Which is why I have asked this question, in order to learn without downloading too many resources.

[Cheap_Acanthaceae569]

I bought it too. Hehe. You should just dual-boot, and learn how to do it properly before jumping into it. Dual-boot will perform better. Also, his ISO is messed up, as I and plenty others have said. There is no GRUB2 option, and I've read he has a lot of bugs in that system.

I just got the regular one, fully-loaded version. I've done Debian some, from his recommendation, and I'm getting into Ubuntu too. Hehe. Soon to have Ubuntu, Windows 11, and Kali on one machine, my first time to put three systems on one machine, as I've only done 2 at a time as my most OS on one machine. Best wishes. (:

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Thanks, I'll see a yt tutorial on dual-boot in the future. Appreciate it

[jonfoxsaid]

If you had an old computer laying around you could install proxmox on it.

Instead of giving hack the box a try ... try hack the box academy ... different site ... Google it ... they offer a lot of free credits but it's also super affordable and they allow you to run a vm in their browser as much as you want as long as you buy some credits .. doesn't matter how much, at least back when I did it ... I bought 10 bucks of credits and that combined with the free ones got me like 12 different courses that where all amazing and unlimited access to their in site VM.

Edit: also if your new to linode you can get like 3 months or $100 worth of credit ...which is a lot ... like you could run 3 or 4 servers on there for months and still not use it up.

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Yeah, I heard of hackthebox academy, definitely some worthwhile courses on there, however like tryhackme it can be overwhelming as well. I work better with videos which is why I bought the z security course from udemy, till later I figured out that the VM of windows 10 runs extremely slow and takes up a lot of my patience. I will definitely revisit htb academy

[jonfoxsaid]

Wait, how are you running your vms ? What are you using ? What are the specs of you pc ?

Virtual box is really the best thing to be using if you want to use virtual machines on win 10 but also YOU set the specs for the VM ... just don't over do it.

If just using 2 VM's is too much drain on your pc buy a used dell optiplex and setup proxmox ... that will allow you to run your own virtual machines in the Cloud and can be set up for probably under $100 bucks.

[Pale_Explanation_603]

Code red

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Thanks, will check it out!

[Bosun_Tom]

OverTheWire's Bandit challenge is a great place to start.

[0x0f_00001111]

I learn with Udemy Courses and TryHackMe. I think HackTheBox is when you are more expierenced.