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The Dark Web And How To Access It

The Dark Web And How To Access It Contents What's the dark web How to access the dark web Installation of TOR browser - Windows and Kali Finding onion websites Dark Web What is the dark web In short, dark web is part of the web which requires special software to browse, and isn't indexed by search engines. (More technical content is enclosed in <extra> tags ahead, and colored purple. Scroll through it if you just want to browse the dark web right away.) <EXTRA> Originally, the internet used telephone network for communication. My first internet connection was a "dial-up" connection which used the telephone network at my house to connect to my ISP. This is what an overlay network is, and in that case, internet was an overlay over the telephone network. Now, the reverse phenomenon can be seen, with people using the internet for voice calls (Voice over IP to be precise), and the telephone network is turning into an overl

Bettercap : MITM attack for sniffing traffic and passwords

Bettercap : MITM attack for sniffing traffic and passwords Contents Installation Sniffing Traffic Getting password We will be installing Bettercap, doing a quick sniffing exercise, and then a more detailed section on grabbing the password. Will demonstrate the password grabbing on outlook.com, which seems to be particularly vulnerable to this attack. Installing bettercap Installation is simple- apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install bettercap The above three commands will leave you with latest versions of Kali and bettercap. PS: I am writing this tutorial from a location with slow internet connection, and hence didn't perform the dist-upgrade step. However, bettercap seems to be running  mostly  fine. There may be a few difference in what you observe and what I show in this demo due to this difference in versions. For those who want to know the versions of various utilities that I'm using, take a look below. If you are unfamiliar with

Kali Installation : Dual Boot VS Live Boot VS Virtual Machine

Kali Installation : Dual Boot VS Live Boot VS Virtual Machine If you are yet to have a Kali instance running on your machine, then you have quite a dilemma ahead of you. There are three ways to go about running Kali, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. In this article, I'll tell you what exactly the terms Dual Boot, Live Boot, and Virtual machine installation mean, how easy/difficult these are to perform, and what are the advantages/disadvantages of each of them. In the end, I'll tell you how to find guides for doing all of these. PS: This guide (and the blog) is focused on Kali, but everything in this post is applicable to Linux in general. Certain parts are related to hacking, but you can take networking lessons from them regardless, even if you aren't interested in hacking per se. Dual Boot Most of you would be running a single operating system on your system right now. However, that doesn't have to be the case. We can partition our hard disk, an