Menu: Which is the best hacking OS? What does parrot say? 0:00 Neal's choice and why: 0:31 Which laptop does Neal use for hacking: 3:27 What about Windows and WSL2: 5:06 What about bare metal installations: 5:47 VM vs baremetal Performance: 7:34 Which laptop would you buy if starting out: 8:12 Moving from a Mac to Windows: 11:33 Ultimate laptop for hacking: 12:00 Career perspective: 13:45 How much of my time is hacking vs other tasks: 14:55 You are a *$%^& hacker if you cannot do this: 16:13 How much of my time will be spent on hacking: 20:13 How do I learn to write reports: 22:10 Breach reports: 26:30 Summary: 28:15 ============================== Examples of reports mentioned: ============================== FireEye: www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/01/phishing-campaign-woff-obfuscation-telegram-communications.html Securelist: securelist.com/sunburst-backdoor-kazuar/99981/ Krebs: krebsonsecurity.com/ ======================= Direct links mentioned: ======================= Mandiant: www.fireeye.com/mandiant.html Kaspersky Securelist: securelist.com/ Krebs: krebsonsecurity.com/ ================ Connect with me: ================ Discord: discord.com/invite/usKSyzb Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal Facebook: facebook.com/davidbombal.co TikTok: tiktok.com/@davidbombal UA-cam: ua-cam.com/users/davidbombal ================ Connect with Neal: ================ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nealbridges/ Twitter: twitter.com/ITJunkie Twitch: www.twitch.tv/cyber_insecurity ================ Links: ================ eLearn Security: elearnsecurity.com OSCP: www.offensive-security.com/courses-and-certifications/ INE: bit.ly/inetraining SANS: www.sans.org/ Hack the box: www.hackthebox.eu/ Try Hack Me: tryhackme.com/ CTF Time: ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/ CEH: www.eccouncil.org/programs/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/ Cyber Blue: securityblue.team/ Cyber Defenders: cyberdefenders.org/ Did I miss something? Please comment. ================ Support me: ================ DavidBombal.com: CCNA ($10): bit.ly/yt999ccna Udemy CCNA Course: bit.ly/ccnafor10dollars GNS3 CCNA Course: CCNA ($10): bit.ly/gns3ccna10 Please note that links listed may be affiliate links and provide me with a small percentage/kickback should you use them to purchase any of the items listed or recommended. Thank you for supporting me and this channel!
hi david! thanks again for this great video!!! if you have another video planned with neil can you ask him about the futur of cybersec with automation. Thank you and keep up the good work
I think a point worth taking into consideration is dual-booting your OSs. If you really want to have them both on bare metal. In that case it would come down to getting more storage space rather than RAM in order to facilitate both systems, as only one would be booted up at a time. Great video, thanks very much for the insight!
Neil is so precise and what I like at him is that he never dissapoints people that you have to do only this or nothing, he always provides alternatives so everybody could catch on, either financially, age related or skills. Thumbs up!
I was looking for hacking books , in the same day David made a vídeo about, i was looking for a laptop for Ethical Hacking five minutes ago, David post a video about . Now i going to search a girlfriend and hope David do a video 😂😂😂
This is hands down one of the best channels I have come across. Thank you so much David for these interviews with Neal and the awesome content. keep up the good work
I started with kali and loved it but I found that due to the WiFi restrictions where I live iit makes kali unusable. However it considers Parrot a normal OS so started using Parrot and loved it. After learning how to create my own Linux OS I used Debian as a base as Kali and Parrot use Debian to and created my own OS called Blue Wolf.
I've not personally used Kali but your WiFi restrictions shouldnt be able to filter your traffic based on precisely what Linux distribution you're using unless there's something in your internet config that tells the network you run Kali
@fantasypvp I was living in a hostel at the time so I'm guessing it was either their firewall or a paid service to filter out software and operating systems as it even said it was blocked due to hacking ability. Now I have my own place and WiFi I don't have that issue but thought it was interesting that kali was banned but Parrot, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu and others were fine when you could download the same tools you get on Kali on other distros anyway.
Being a pentester with about 8 years of experience, It is completely true "You are a useless penetration tester if you cannot write a report". I've been mentoring alot of juniors who are top class CTF hackers but are absolutely pathetic at writing reports. I can't tell you the countless times I've saved their asses from being fired from the higher ups.
Good things come to those who look for them. The more I look, the more great mentors I find. I have ADHD, and it's difficult to sit down and study. Your work has taught me so much, and I have loads of fun doing it. Thank you David Bombal for your amazing videos.
Good session, but I have to disagree with the macbook recommendation. When going to assignments it's not great to carry multiple laptops in my case, and also in case of [ as in video ] using VMs, not bare metal. You get a windows laptop for the price of mbp and you get a dedicated gpu in most cases, expandability, sd card slots, ethernet port, etc etc That means you can play games. You can gpucrack. You can have the same laptop for a longer time. Depending on assignment Dell is more likely to be inconspicuous in corporate environment for example. With ThinkPads you get a keyboard that is amazing for writing and tank durability. I see absolutely no advantage in having a mac, except blending in at starbucks/costa.
-Great content teachers David and Neal ... !!! -I always say that and a crowd of Kali fan boys come to fight with me when I speak. -Kali is a tool (distro) compiled with the packages they test in their certification exam, it is not made to be an OS with all the features of an OS that would come in a standard distro, in short it is an ideal tool for run on VM (VMs are perfect toll I use a lot of then). -The Parrot seems to have more resources but has the same problem as Kali, it is a distro that Hackers know so they also know their vulnerabilities. -I am a network engineer and I worked with the military in my government for a long time and the security experts I met more than a decade ago used super unknown distro with a lot of things that they compiled altered kernel and so on will, almost always some variation of Arch. -Therefore when I go to learn Pentest I want to use BlackArch which just by looking at the amount of packages and tools that comes is immense the image is 2 or 3 times larger than Kali and Parrot, but this is my personal taste and even so i'm going to run it on VM so I run several tool VMs on both OS i run on the 2 separate hard drives I have on this note one has Windows and the other Linux (this hardware is old so VM for real use is very slow), I use for everything and is a standard Linux distro for Desktop and I use it as Desktop, Mini Server, but it is my personal taste, each one uses what they want. -Thanks for the knowledge ... !!!
Hello David. Thank you so much for covering the ethical hacking education portion. It took me almost one year just to figure it out what do I need to learn, read and where should I start from. I'm still figuring out. But your videos helps a lot for people like who just started. I'm not sure if you've already covered if we need to learn programming for hacking. If so then which languages. If you can discuss this issue in future videos. That would be much appreciated. And definitely loving your discussion together. Please keep it going. You guys are putting out very important informations. Thank you again.
5:47 Been a Linux desktop user since 2013. Bare metal OS is fine and dandy. Much like Neal said having a Windows host with 3 VMs to suit your needs is ideal for him; flip the scenario and have a linux based OS as the host with windows and others as a guest. As a software engineer I find linux a better development environment. No need to hate on us users on metal and state that "we're doing it to just look cool". Not my fault my workflow is better achieved and more of my time is spent in linux. Virtualization is the great mediator ...besides some networking issues. lol
@Elixir yeah... and Kali falls under that umbrella and could be fine as a daily given someone's workflow. My main point in the original comment was that some dev workflows don't necessitate proprietary/specific software as he mentions. For myself, Kali is perfectly fine as a dev and hobbyist. I rarely touch anything else and if so, I spin it up. That's all I was getting at lol
I love these videos man. Thank you for making them. As an amateur still learning a lot of stuff, these distros really help me make sure my own network and devices are secure which is such a huge factor for me and should be for everyone. I don't take any pleasure in the idea of using these against other people. Everyone's been a victim of a hack at least once. And the feeling is a deep feeling of violation and paranoia. I don't wish that on anyone. That's what led me to your awesome channel. Thanks again!
For those interested, I ran both Kali and ParrotOS on a 2007 Dell Inspiron 1525 running a core 2 Duo, I did upgrade to 8 GBs of Ram, both OS's were running off a 32GB Samsung thumb drive. If you are in a bind for money, an older laptop will work to run these OS's until a new one can be acquired.
Run a Linux Distro as the bare metal OS on the laptop, build a Windows 10 VM for business integration and have VM's for ParrotOS Security and Kali. On my laptop, I run Parrot OS Home (the non security distro) and have VM's for ParrotOS security, Kali and Windows 10. Runs great on a Dell XPS 13 or 15 from 2018.
Some tipps for Windows (according 11:33) 1. Use Bitlocker or VeraCrypt for full disc encryption 2. use Chocolatey to install your software 3. choose WSL, Docker or HyperV, if you need Linux or Bash Apple guys, you still think anything is missing?
Very strong points, until now I used parrot as my daily but I've always complained about the sucky integration with all my stuff; I guess I should've use a VM by now :)) good work!
I have the same question! In my experience, it's very difficult to virtualise the needed environments on M1 Macs (as good as Parallels is). I have thought about Amazon Lightsail or GCP - but that could end up expensive...
Great video, advice. Thanks for helping everyone keep learning, sharing tips and growing in knowledge. I like the fact it was mentioned, you can't just go hack anything, it has to be planned, a report written and compiled together. I have been learning hacking for 6 years, have a sound background, multiple skills, great aptitude for learning. For me it would be windows pc. I carry another cheap laptop for testing attacks against. Most applications that are on github will run in powershell, I also run kali on a thumb drive, must add love parrot and tails. Keep up the great content. To add to what, so what, now what. Learn, test, document.
The advantage of Parrot/Kali for learners is that they can discover and learn about all the existing programs on the distro and discover tools they never knew existed without extensive googling . You can hack just fine with most other distros but only when you are already experienced enough to know what tools and programmes you want to install in the first place.
Neal touched an interesting point there and i'd love to see you guys go over that particular thing in a future video: How does stuff like the GDPR and ethical hacking/pentesting go together? How would one make it work? How about places (that is countries) that try to ban 'hacker tools'? What are your thoughts/experiences/... in that regard?
I like the look and feel of Parrot OS with a side of Black Arch. I think what a good topic may be why any "GIT, repository gets old and outdated quick.
I am using separate laptop for penetration testing only, on which I am running Kali and Parrot (dual boot) on bare metal. It is a laptop with integrated and dedicated GPU's just in case I need to run some password cracking etc... while on the go. So, if you are going with bare metal installation, if you can - go with integrated + dedicated GPUs model (and dont buy macbook for bare metal installation). If you are using Virtual Machine, no use of GPU anyway.
Thanks a lot! Great material. The advice on writing reports, presale and customer relation are really appreciated. I find that in small company you have to be a jack of all trade. And we don’t talk too much about it.
Just wanna mention that . We should really appreciate that we have an awesome channel like David getting all these information for free that I bet you you can't get them even in a Premium courses.
Bought myself two second hand Lenovo mini desktops for under $150 each. Keep an eye out for the “enterprise” brands (HP, Dell, Lenovo), as companies dump them onto the market when they replace them as part of their asset refreshes. Many second hand ones become available every year and they typically have high end features such as ram and SSDs.
@@davidbombal thanks David I'm learn with Kali Linux and a standard laptop, I don't have a lots of resources. For all of this thanks, because I learn with you!
LOL 😆enjoy the intros with you and your kid pretty funny. Love your channel David. I'm half way done with your CCNA 200-301 course from udemy great stuff. Going for my ccna to learn networking as best I can to eventually land a job as a soc analyst, then keep moving around in cybersecurity.
Usb is great for computers that u don't want to be traced or know u used. Vm is good for using ur own computer. Usb has pros and cons just ad vm has pros and cons. I prefer a usb for the reason I can use the hardware to the fullest where vm Relies on the is to give you power its shared memory and shared power. But I digress I use vm on computers I know that people know im on such as my own to download stuff or surf the dark web. But I also use tails via usb. Old computers or shotty computers with a slow cpu like an i3 won't support a vm as well and run fast as maximizing and utilizing the hardware you are using. if your pentest speed counts especially if a company hired you to do vulnerability testing then I would use a usb that can jump on any computer quick without downloading and installing vm with disc image and configuration. And I would also bring my dummy computer and my good one. The dummy has dual boot kali and windows and my own is parrot with vm kali tails and windows. 32gb ram 8 core cpu to support the speed.
@@jorgenajera9187 It is basically a full install of your distro that you can carry with you. Better than a live image as you can easily update your system. Just like a normal install.
I would even go further with installing kali on bare metal for your daily mails and reports: it seems like an unnecessary risk for being reverse hacked and unnecessarily exposing your information. By using compartments you avoid seeping data from one VM to another or to your main system.
I have a question: Which field ( field means = programming or networking ) is good to start and then to move in to security or cybersecurity ? Is better to have networking skills or programming skills when to start in IT and then to move to cybersecurity ?
I feel like these distros are good for newbies, but once you have a direction you want to go I find them both lacking and a bit bloated. Neal hit the nail on the head by saying you can turn anything into a good hacking rig.
Writing reports is some of my weakness due my language barrier. I currently attending an Technical writhing class and I am doing well except that I need to work more in my sentence structure. great video I am hook with your contend.
The most important aspect of having a hacking distro is that when you're starting out, it gives you all the important tools you need when you don't actually know what tools you need yet.
Lenovo Thinkpad P52/P53/P15 support max 128Gb of Ram. And some of them support 2 or 3 HDD/SDD depending on configuration. Some of them officially support Linux. Also on some laptops you can install Hackintosh
Loving these David and Neil Hacking series! Thanks for the information, still trying to swallow the mac book pill, none the less thanks a million for the insightful info.
@@davidbombal Do you use a MacBook with the M1 chip or do you recommend one with the M1 chip? My only concern with the new MacBook’s are the compatibility issues (VMware fusion is still developing M1 compatibility etc).
Menu:
Which is the best hacking OS? What does parrot say? 0:00
Neal's choice and why: 0:31
Which laptop does Neal use for hacking: 3:27
What about Windows and WSL2: 5:06
What about bare metal installations: 5:47
VM vs baremetal Performance: 7:34
Which laptop would you buy if starting out: 8:12
Moving from a Mac to Windows: 11:33
Ultimate laptop for hacking: 12:00
Career perspective: 13:45
How much of my time is hacking vs other tasks: 14:55
You are a *$%^& hacker if you cannot do this: 16:13
How much of my time will be spent on hacking: 20:13
How do I learn to write reports: 22:10
Breach reports: 26:30
Summary: 28:15
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Examples of reports mentioned:
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FireEye: www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/01/phishing-campaign-woff-obfuscation-telegram-communications.html
Securelist: securelist.com/sunburst-backdoor-kazuar/99981/
Krebs: krebsonsecurity.com/
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Mandiant: www.fireeye.com/mandiant.html
Kaspersky Securelist: securelist.com/
Krebs: krebsonsecurity.com/
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Twitter: twitter.com/ITJunkie
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/cyber_insecurity
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eLearn Security: elearnsecurity.com
OSCP: www.offensive-security.com/courses-and-certifications/
INE: bit.ly/inetraining
SANS: www.sans.org/
Hack the box: www.hackthebox.eu/
Try Hack Me: tryhackme.com/
CTF Time: ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/
CEH: www.eccouncil.org/programs/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/
Cyber Blue: securityblue.team/
Cyber Defenders: cyberdefenders.org/
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Hi David, Loved all sessions with Neal, Please note my question, What is the best field in cybersecurity?? Especially Network hacking and scada, Plz
@@sarmadahsan869 do you know ethical hacking and cyber security are two different domains
hi david! thanks again for this great video!!! if you have another video planned with neil can you ask him about the futur of cybersec with automation. Thank you and keep up the good work
Thanks a lot for this meeting session,
Can I ask a Question ( What about the Kali NetHunter is it enough for used in hacking or penetration or not ? )
These sessions with Neal are absolutely brilliant! You push him to answer the questions we all need and want to know. Please keep up the great work!
I think a point worth taking into consideration is dual-booting your OSs. If you really want to have them both on bare metal. In that case it would come down to getting more storage space rather than RAM in order to facilitate both systems, as only one would be booted up at a time. Great video, thanks very much for the insight!
Really amazing video, David! I can fairly certain tell that your content is one of a kind! Keep it up, we as your community love what you do :)
Thank you!
Thanks again Neal and David! Love all the interviews.
Thanks!
Really enjoying your videos with Neal! Please keep them up. Great work David. I appreciate all you do.
Really happy to hear that Alex!
Neil is so precise and what I like at him is that he never dissapoints people that you have to do only this or nothing, he always provides alternatives so everybody could catch on, either financially, age related or skills. Thumbs up!
I was looking for hacking books , in the same day David made a vídeo about, i was looking for a laptop for Ethical Hacking five minutes ago, David post a video about . Now i going to search a girlfriend and hope David do a video 😂😂😂
Lol... great comment! 👍😂
hahahahahshahahaha
Hahahaha
I have seen this comment on David Instagram 🤣😂🤣
Which laptop is best for hacking and books?.. Pls
This is hands down one of the best channels I have come across. Thank you so much David for these interviews with Neal and the awesome content. keep up the good work
Thank you, I really appreciate that!
You two are an awesome duo! I am so thankful you two do these videos.
I am a beginner into IT and ive been watching all your and network chuck's videos. Its helping a lot.
I started with kali and loved it but I found that due to the WiFi restrictions where I live iit makes kali unusable. However it considers Parrot a normal OS so started using Parrot and loved it. After learning how to create my own Linux OS I used Debian as a base as Kali and Parrot use Debian to and created my own OS called Blue Wolf.
I've not personally used Kali but your WiFi restrictions shouldnt be able to filter your traffic based on precisely what Linux distribution you're using unless there's something in your internet config that tells the network you run Kali
@fantasypvp I was living in a hostel at the time so I'm guessing it was either their firewall or a paid service to filter out software and operating systems as it even said it was blocked due to hacking ability. Now I have my own place and WiFi I don't have that issue but thought it was interesting that kali was banned but Parrot, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu and others were fine when you could download the same tools you get on Kali on other distros anyway.
Being a pentester with about 8 years of experience, It is completely true "You are a useless penetration tester if you cannot write a report". I've been mentoring alot of juniors who are top class CTF hackers but are absolutely pathetic at writing reports. I can't tell you the countless times I've saved their asses from being fired from the higher ups.
Kinda funny to be honest.
Good things come to those who look for them. The more I look, the more great mentors I find. I have ADHD, and it's difficult to sit down and study. Your work has taught me so much, and I have loads of fun doing it. Thank you David Bombal for your amazing videos.
Good session, but I have to disagree with the macbook recommendation. When going to assignments it's not great to carry multiple laptops in my case, and also in case of [ as in video ] using VMs, not bare metal. You get a windows laptop for the price of mbp and you get a dedicated gpu in most cases, expandability, sd card slots, ethernet port, etc etc That means you can play games. You can gpucrack. You can have the same laptop for a longer time. Depending on assignment Dell is more likely to be inconspicuous in corporate environment for example. With ThinkPads you get a keyboard that is amazing for writing and tank durability. I see absolutely no advantage in having a mac, except blending in at starbucks/costa.
Haha! The intro is my favorite. Good job sir!
Glad you liked it! :)
-Great content teachers David and Neal ... !!!
-I always say that and a crowd of Kali fan boys come to fight with me when I speak.
-Kali is a tool (distro) compiled with the packages they test in their certification exam, it is not made to be an OS with all the features of an OS that would come in a standard distro, in short it is an ideal tool for run on VM (VMs are perfect toll I use a lot of then).
-The Parrot seems to have more resources but has the same problem as Kali, it is a distro that Hackers know so they also know their vulnerabilities.
-I am a network engineer and I worked with the military in my government for a long time and the security experts I met more than a decade ago used super unknown distro with a lot of things that they compiled altered kernel and so on will, almost always some variation of Arch.
-Therefore when I go to learn Pentest I want to use BlackArch which just by looking at the amount of packages and tools that comes is immense the image is 2 or 3 times larger than Kali and Parrot, but this is my personal taste and even so i'm going to run it on VM so I run several tool VMs on both OS i run on the 2 separate hard drives I have on this note one has Windows and the other Linux (this hardware is old so VM for real use is very slow), I use for everything and is a standard Linux distro for Desktop and I use it as Desktop, Mini Server, but it is my personal taste, each one uses what they want.
-Thanks for the knowledge ... !!!
Hello David. Thank you so much for covering the ethical hacking education portion. It took me almost one year just to figure it out what do I need to learn, read and where should I start from. I'm still figuring out. But your videos helps a lot for people like who just started.
I'm not sure if you've already covered if we need to learn programming for hacking. If so then which languages. If you can discuss this issue in future videos. That would be much appreciated.
And definitely loving your discussion together. Please keep it going. You guys are putting out very important informations.
Thank you again.
It's just the n-th time that I'm watching this podcast, thank you 🤗
5:47 Been a Linux desktop user since 2013. Bare metal OS is fine and dandy. Much like Neal said having a Windows host with 3 VMs to suit your needs is ideal for him; flip the scenario and have a linux based OS as the host with windows and others as a guest. As a software engineer I find linux a better development environment. No need to hate on us users on metal and state that "we're doing it to just look cool". Not my fault my workflow is better achieved and more of my time is spent in linux. Virtualization is the great mediator ...besides some networking issues. lol
Never use windows on bare metal!
You are absolutely right,,,,,this baldie had NO hacking experience,,,when he recommend APPLE,,,this is a no go...see my comment....
@Elixir yeah... and Kali falls under that umbrella and could be fine as a daily given someone's workflow. My main point in the original comment was that some dev workflows don't necessitate proprietary/specific software as he mentions. For myself, Kali is perfectly fine as a dev and hobbyist. I rarely touch anything else and if so, I spin it up. That's all I was getting at lol
@@KarlMySuitcase I would say never use Windows.
This is a favorite Bombal interview. Neil has great insight and details on how to succeed in the industry.
Another very useful video! Please, keep these series going! Thanks a lot and take care!
Thank you Rado. Happy to hear that.
Thank you David for that much of information. Really appreciated🔥
You''re welcome Vishal!
I love these videos man. Thank you for making them. As an amateur still learning a lot of stuff, these distros really help me make sure my own network and devices are secure which is such a huge factor for me and should be for everyone. I don't take any pleasure in the idea of using these against other people. Everyone's been a victim of a hack at least once. And the feeling is a deep feeling of violation and paranoia. I don't wish that on anyone. That's what led me to your awesome channel. Thanks again!
For those interested, I ran both Kali and ParrotOS on a 2007 Dell Inspiron 1525 running a core 2 Duo, I did upgrade to 8 GBs of Ram, both OS's were running off a 32GB Samsung thumb drive. If you are in a bind for money, an older laptop will work to run these OS's until a new one can be acquired.
Run a Linux Distro as the bare metal OS on the laptop, build a Windows 10 VM for business integration and have VM's for ParrotOS Security and Kali. On my laptop, I run Parrot OS Home (the non security distro) and have VM's for ParrotOS security, Kali and Windows 10. Runs great on a Dell XPS 13 or 15 from 2018.
Some tipps for Windows (according 11:33)
1. Use Bitlocker or VeraCrypt for full disc encryption
2. use Chocolatey to install your software
3. choose WSL, Docker or HyperV, if you need Linux or Bash
Apple guys, you still think anything is missing?
Virtual machine
@@notholdini2740 The classic Hypervisor for Windows is HyperV, but in many cases Docker or WSL are a smart Alternative.
Great Mr.David You are The Best Keep Going 👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
@@davidbombal Why don't you talk about RDP in addition to VM 🤔?
Im looking for the purpose of my life...jk love your comment! Lol
David, your videos are phenominal! Clarity, content, structure of video is simply brilliant. Thank you for all you do Sir!
Very strong points, until now I used parrot as my daily but I've always complained about the sucky integration with all my stuff; I guess I should've use a VM by now :)) good work!
How about the M1 Macs with virtualising kali and others. Any thoughts on this?
Great content by the way...
I have the same question! In my experience, it's very difficult to virtualise the needed environments on M1 Macs (as good as Parallels is). I have thought about Amazon Lightsail or GCP - but that could end up expensive...
@@TheB1nary what laptop do u have? Im majoring in cyber security
@@j.vosier6786 go MacBook Pro 16 core i9 if you have money.
@@SokhengKim how about a good laptop under $1000?
I finally got to view as soon as a release
I love your videos they are a huge inspiration, thank you for what you are doing.
Thank you Kenyon!
Great video, advice.
Thanks for helping everyone keep learning, sharing tips and growing in knowledge.
I like the fact it was mentioned, you can't just go hack anything, it has to be planned, a report written and compiled together.
I have been learning hacking for 6 years, have a sound background, multiple skills, great aptitude for learning.
For me it would be windows pc.
I carry another cheap laptop for testing attacks against.
Most applications that are on github will run in powershell, I also run kali on a thumb drive, must add love parrot and tails.
Keep up the great content.
To add to what, so what, now what.
Learn, test, document.
What a coincidence, I was looking to buy a laptop a your latest video poped into my notification icon ! :) ...I'm pretty lucky
Really happy to hear that Tanish!
@@davidbombal Hey, can you make a " detailed " video with Neil, on how to become OSCP.
Very informative video again! Curious if with Apple starting to use the new M1 chips if Macbooks are still Neal's choice
The advantage of Parrot/Kali for learners is that they can discover and learn about all the existing programs on the distro and discover tools they never knew existed without extensive googling .
You can hack just fine with most other distros but only when you are already experienced enough to know what tools and programmes you want to install in the first place.
Neal touched an interesting point there and i'd love to see you guys go over that particular thing in a future video: How does stuff like the GDPR and ethical hacking/pentesting go together? How would one make it work? How about places (that is countries) that try to ban 'hacker tools'? What are your thoughts/experiences/... in that regard?
Thank you very much and good luck Mr.David 💖
You're welcome! And thank you for your support!
Thanks, Sir... This Video is Part of my Playlist Now
You're welcome!
I like the look and feel of Parrot OS with a side of Black Arch. I think what a good topic may be why any "GIT, repository gets old and outdated quick.
I have been running 16 GB of RAM for so long. I agree that it's more than enough for most use cases, but I want more on my laptop.
I've heard/read that if you're using VMs a lot that 32gb is a big help. Trying to get more insight to that claim before I make the jump.
Lot of love from India sir🥰🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thanks for this useful information 🥰🥰..
You're welcome Ritik
Wow you guys to go check out gwin_tech on Instagram men that guy is a genius and a computer freak and also reliable he’s the best 💯💯
I am using separate laptop for penetration testing only, on which I am running Kali and Parrot (dual boot) on bare metal. It is a laptop with integrated and dedicated GPU's just in case I need to run some password cracking etc... while on the go. So, if you are going with bare metal installation, if you can - go with integrated + dedicated GPUs model (and dont buy macbook for bare metal installation). If you are using Virtual Machine, no use of GPU anyway.
Great comment Gargoyles. Thank you for sharing.
Great video, thank you David and Neal; I've got to work on my report writing skills :)
Another excellent conversation, every time I think of a question to ask you David. You publish a video answer, please keep the good work.
Thanks Joe!
Thanks a lot! Great material. The advice on writing reports, presale and customer relation are really appreciated. I find that in small company you have to be a jack of all trade. And we don’t talk too much about it.
LOVE IT! 🔥 David & Neal dropping some major golden nuggets - as always! 💣 👊🏻
Thank you Debbie!
So glad to see u David this videos and your courses help me a lot through my path in cibersecurity and networking, Saludos desde Argentina🇦🇷
Really happy to hear that Jeronimo!
Thanks David and Neal, interesting conversation and could listen for hours
Just wanna mention that . We should really appreciate that we have an awesome channel like David getting all these information for free that I bet you you can't get them even in a Premium courses.
Thank you as always David for another very helpful and informative video! Keep up the great work :D
Thank you!
Bought myself two second hand Lenovo mini desktops for under $150 each. Keep an eye out for the “enterprise” brands (HP, Dell, Lenovo), as companies dump them onto the market when they replace them as part of their asset refreshes. Many second hand ones become available every year and they typically have high end features such as ram and SSDs.
Thank you very much for putting the subtitles
If it is possible
I would love to see both of you talking about digital forensics 😄
Love these intros!!! lol Also love these discussions and Neal's choice in backdrop :)
Amazing video!!! Thanks David for share your knowledge!!!!👏👏👏👏
Thank you Marcelo! You're welcome.
@@davidbombal thanks David I'm learn with Kali Linux and a standard laptop, I don't have a lots of resources. For all of this thanks, because I learn with you!
Thank you again David and Neal
AMAZING video guys! Thanks to David and Neal! Inspiring me start to learn hacking to be a pen tester! Big hug from Brazil!
so cute when you have your kiddos in. your kids look super happy bro
I really enjoy these collaborations. keep em coming sir bombal you're the best!
Really i need many guidance from from david sir.... But i didnt knw he have arranged all stuff for future teches. Thank alot david sir
Neal rocking the Clocks and Colors, nice!
Awesome content david bhai❤️
Thank you!
This had me cracking up ... really cute intro...loved it. :-)
Thank you David for this type of information. It helps a lot to know the other side of IT work !
Great video! So much valuable content! Thanks David and Niel!
LOL 😆enjoy the intros with you and your kid pretty funny. Love your channel David. I'm half way done with your CCNA 200-301 course from udemy great stuff. Going for my ccna to learn networking as best I can to eventually land a job as a soc analyst, then keep moving around in cybersecurity.
Hey what's your take on live booting from a usb with persistence as opposed too a VM
Usb is great for computers that u don't want to be traced or know u used. Vm is good for using ur own computer. Usb has pros and cons just ad vm has pros and cons. I prefer a usb for the reason I can use the hardware to the fullest where vm Relies on the is to give you power its shared memory and shared power. But I digress I use vm on computers I know that people know im on such as my own to download stuff or surf the dark web. But I also use tails via usb. Old computers or shotty computers with a slow cpu like an i3 won't support a vm as well and run fast as maximizing and utilizing the hardware you are using. if your pentest speed counts especially if a company hired you to do vulnerability testing then I would use a usb that can jump on any computer quick without downloading and installing vm with disc image and configuration. And I would also bring my dummy computer and my good one. The dummy has dual boot kali and windows and my own is parrot with vm kali tails and windows. 32gb ram 8 core cpu to support the speed.
Don't use persistence. Do a full install.
@@VidathD why is that?
@@jorgenajera9187 It is basically a full install of your distro that you can carry with you. Better than a live image as you can easily update your system. Just like a normal install.
yay my man finally made a video about these 2 OS was waiting for it
Much appreciated!
Loving these vids with Neal! Thank you David
Really happy to hear that Ronette!
@@davidbombal would be so cool if both of you could talk about blue team. What resources to use etc.
watching this on Parrot OS!! this is by far the best OS for a mix of daily use and hacking.
Thank you very much for this video David!
I would even go further with installing kali on bare metal for your daily mails and reports: it seems like an unnecessary risk for being reverse hacked and unnecessarily exposing your information. By using compartments you avoid seeping data from one VM to another or to your main system.
I made a LinkedIn account because of Neal's initial video. He's now my first connection, I'm off to a great start!
Fantastic!
Your video updates pushing me keep learn more new things.Thanks a lot @david 😀😀
I was waiting for the laptop part so long
Happy to hear that Ivan!
Neal and David you are both amazing Im getting answers through your videos
Interesting video my laptop os parrot os 👍👍👍👍
You are my best guide Bombal. Thank you.
Learning how to use pentesting tools is more important than running them on the latest and greatest hardware.
Wow you guys to go check out gwin_tech on Instagram men that guy is a genius and a computer freak and also reliable he’s the best 💯💯
I have a question: Which field ( field means = programming or networking ) is good to start and then to move in to security or cybersecurity ? Is better to have networking skills or programming skills when to start in IT and then to move to cybersecurity ?
Very insightful content with Neal. Thank you David sir❤️
Glad you enjoyed the video Uday!
Awesome video as per usual!
Great and useful. Thank you very much for the time you dedicate to prepare these instructive videos!
When you reach on a certain stage
You will able to decide which is is better for you
But thanks for helping newbies
Agreed. We all need to start somewhere and then we can take different paths based on our personal preference.
I feel like these distros are good for newbies, but once you have a direction you want to go I find them both lacking and a bit bloated. Neal hit the nail on the head by saying you can turn anything into a good hacking rig.
@@billyfarrington374 yaa right
@@ashishashish-di3cg to be fair, NO ONE BUT newbies would be watching this so..
Writing reports is some of my weakness due my language barrier. I currently attending an Technical writhing class and I am doing well except that I need to work more in my sentence structure. great video I am hook with your contend.
Much insight, Thank you!
The most important aspect of having a hacking distro is that when you're starting out, it gives you all the important tools you need when you don't actually know what tools you need yet.
Neil looks a lot bigger without the parrot mask on!
@@r.n.dspectra1775 I was being funny.
@@dogma7911 ok👍😅
Lenovo Thinkpad P52/P53/P15 support max 128Gb of Ram.
And some of them support 2 or 3 HDD/SDD depending on configuration.
Some of them officially support Linux.
Also on some laptops you can install Hackintosh
As always, great content! Thank you so much for sharing! My motivation continues to be renewed as I watch new videos on this channel.
Really happy to hear that Taylor
Ok, it's confirmed, he is actually reading my mind. Lots of love for all the useful content you put here.❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm reading your mind right now! 😂
I know right????
Super Content 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great point about people trying to use Kali as a daily driver. Just not feasible. But on a dual boot you'll have the best of both
Great video, thank you to both of you
Thank you vary vary much for your great contributions for offensive security.
You're welcome Haseeb!
@@davidbombal thanks sir i need to join a course about ethical h. Tell me where i go
you both are awesome brother good to see this video
Thank you David for the informative content
You'r welcome Nicholas!
As always greats video and interviews thanks a lots @david and neal :)
Loving these David and Neil Hacking series! Thanks for the information, still trying to swallow the mac book pill, none the less thanks a million for the insightful info.
Use what you have and like. Some people would prefer a windows laptop with VMs or WSL 😀 I personally use a Mac like Neal
@@davidbombal Do you use a MacBook with the M1 chip or do you recommend one with the M1 chip? My only concern with the new MacBook’s are the compatibility issues (VMware fusion is still developing M1 compatibility etc).