DVWA VS metasploitable3

There's also a bunch of intentionally vulnerable Webapps and VMs aimed at demonstrating potential footholds and common exploits leading to owning of the host including but not limited to: bWAPP, Damn Vulnerable Web App, WebGoat, Metasploitable 3, Mutillidae, Juice Shop

I'd suggest you to download for example a VM of Damn Vulnerable Web Application (https://github.com/digininja/DVWA), learn and practice the attacks, and then try to protect the host from these attacks to prevent or limit access to the system.

I deployed a Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) for you, I DM'ed the url and creds. It's a controlled sandbox, intentionally vulnerable app for you to try out your hackerman skills. Go nuts, have fun dude.

For app security check out the damn vulnerable web app: https://github.com/digininja/DVWA

A fresh install laptop is probably going to be a frustrating first place to start as it is unlikely to be exposing any services for you to scan or test. You could install some vulnerable services, like the damn vulnerable web application here which has good setup instructions and many, many walkthroughs.

You could spin up a version of dvwa and scan that. https://github.com/digininja/DVWA

sudo git clone https://github.com/digininja/DVWA/git

DVWA is a pretty solid educational, training application that is meant for this purpose. There are a bunch of different modules, but one is bruteforcing passwords.

Damn Vulnerable Web App

There's also a bunch of intentionally vulnerable Webapps and VMs aimed at demonstrating potential footholds and common exploits leading to owning of the host including but not limited to: bWAPP, Damn Vulnerable Web App, WebGoat, Metasploitable 3, Mutillidae, Juice Shop

Note: to practice, you don;t have to attack real targets which are very hard for a beginner anyways.Use a vulnerable on purpose vm to train specific skills.

Set this up, have fun: Metasploitable 3

Op, this is good. But if you want to make your existing DC vulnerable, you can just make download the software rapid7 did to make this box https://github.com/rapid7/metasploitable3/wiki/Vulnerabilities

Metasploitable is a virtual machine image that includes lots of vulnerabilities (on purpose) and that can be used to learn how to hack into a machine.

If you want to do offensive security like penetration testing, learn some tools like Burp Suite and Metasploit and point them at a vulnerable Linux distro. While you're doing that, find some local security user groups and start attending so you can find out about openings right away. The job is to run automated and manual tests against specific hosts and write reports about what you find. A technical writing course is a big benefit here.

you know what i mean

Metasploitable https://github.com/rapid7/metasploitable3 and as someone else also mentioned OWASP's vulnerable/broken apps