Today, I am going to present an OS that gives you the opportunities to hack in and check the security of the OS, and it is the most easiest OS to hack in and check for securities and information inside the OS. Metasploitable, yes Metasploitable is the OS which is the easiest to hack in and look after the information of the OS. Before I should start the installation of the OS, I will define the OS, and I will say how to use this OS and where to use and where not to use that because it can be dangerous for you also.
Download and Install Metasploitable in VirtualBox
What is Metasploitable, and where to use it?
To install Metasploitable in VirtualBox at first, we need to know what is Metasploitable. Metasploitable is a purposely vulnerable Linux machine which is used to test security tools and test conventional penetration testing methods on it. It will look just like a command prompt in Windows and as a terminal in Linux. I mean it doesn’t have any kinds of graphic design or something. Don’t use it when it is connected to an unknown or public network because as I said, it is a vulnerable machine which can be hacked easily.
What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing or pen-test is an attack on a computer system that looks for security weaknesses, want to get access to the computer’s features and data. Let’s start to know more and to install this OS in a Virtual Machine. We are going to show you how to download and install Metasploitable in Virtualbox.
Install Metasploitable in Virtualbox
Requirements for this OS.