![]() Its name is an acronym for “Load Balancing Detector”. lbd detects load balancing, while wafw00f detects a web application firewall or WAF. Kali Linux has two IDS/IPS detection tools that check for different kinds of intrusion detection. When attacking a server, either for pen-testing purposes or for black hat hacking purposes, it helps to know if that server is protected by an IDS or IPS. The first step of any online attack is reconnaissance. My method of research has been pretty obvious and unoriginal: All I do is look through the main menu on the top titlebar and see what software titles I can find there, then I look them up on the Internet using a standard search engine. ![]() Kali Linux was originally called Backtrack Linux, but it was rechristened in 2012. I can only assume the name comes from the Hindu goddess Kali, who is the goddess of death and destruction, which kinda resonates with the whole theme of offensive security and penetration testing. In fact it is almost identical to vanilla Debian except for a few superficial changes to the interface and the addition of a wide array of hacking tools. In the present post, I will be documenting my efforts to learn about offensive security by exploring a Linux distro designed specifically for that purpose: Kali Linux. ![]() So in this post I started documenting my efforts to learn about offensive security by researching vulnerability reports.
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