Pens and testing

So recently I got an interest in learning pen testing (ethical hacking) and so far it’s been pretty fun. Learning how systems are built and how networking works. Took a bit of time, but I get why people like using the terminal. It truly is quick and efficient. And in some cases, it’s better than the GUI counterpart, for example, I managed to recover a USB that wouldn’t format (Windows).

I have had a couple of USBs lying around that were stuck on raw. And whenever I would try to use Windows Disk Management(GUI) app, it would fail to format, and for the longest time. I just assumed there wasn’t a way to fix this well, but it turns out there is a way.

And it’s called diskpart it’s a built-in little program on Windows. u can acces it by opening any windows terminal(Command Prompt / PowerShell) and typing diskpart Unlike its GUI counterpart diskpart accualy has more power and can opperate on a lower level.

In case you have any corrupt or USBs you can’t format, I made a little guide you can find here

accidently starting a war…

So, in my quest on learning pen testing, I decided to set up a Linux machine using an old laptop I had lying around. As meny my first idea was to installing kali linux and so i did just that. After a while, I wanted to customize it a bit , and so I tried but kept running into weird issues. And so I asked people in the Linux community how to customise it. I then got informed that Kali is actually quite outdated in terms of packages and features. and so naturally I asked what Linux distro they would recommend… That might have been a mistake because immediately everyone started arguing about what’s best and what’s bad Turns out the Linux community is very passionate about their distros.

i ended up going with CachyOS and with KDE as my desktop environment.