SSH clients – PuTTy and WinSCP

PuTTy is an open source terminal emulator that provides a serial console and file transfer functionality. It supports SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, SCP, and raw socket connections. This application can be downloaded from http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe.

WinSCP (which stands for Windows Secure Copy) is an open source application that supports SFTP, FTP, WebDav, and SCP clients for Windows. It is mainly used to transfer the file between a remote computer and a local machine.

A portable version of WinSCP can be downloaded from https://winscp.net/download/winscp575.zip.

During our assessments, we will be extensively using Putty for Apple device communication through SSH and WinSCP for GUI-based transfers ...

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