Top 3 features you'll want to know about

So, up to this point I have eased you into the syntax and some of the more common uses for Netcat at a very basic level. At this point, you should feel somewhat comfortable, so for this section we are going to progress into some (more or less) real scenarios to showcase some of the things that you can do with this utility.

Using Netcat to get a remote shell on a target computer

In this feature, we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to obtain a remote shell on a target computer system. In real life, one would look to push the Netcat executable and launch it using something like Meterpreter within Metasploit, or packing the binary with some parameters and tricking the end user to launch the code. Both ...

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