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Legal notice:

The usage of penetration testing tools outside your own laboratory environment requires the permission of the organization you attack. Penetration testing without such a permission can have legal consequences.

To avoid such legal conflicts please refer to the Code of Ethics.

Penetration Testing

"A penetration test, informally pen test, is an attack on a computer system that looks for security weaknesses, potentially gaining access to the computer's features and data." (source Penetration test).

Penetration Testing Distributions:

The following install instructions explain how to setup a penetration testing distribution within Qubes OS.

Using Qubes OS to host a "hacking" laboratory

Qubes OS is a hypervisor based operating system. Qubes OS can various operating systems such as Linux, Unix or Windows in parallel. Qubes OS can therefor be used to host your own "hacking" laboratory.