<ul><li>Netcat, also known as the "Swiss Army knife" of networking, is a powerful command-line tool for data communication over networks.</li><li>A reverse shell is a technique used in penetration testing to bypass firewalls or network restrictions by establishing a connection from the target machine to the attacker's machine.</li><li>Various methods can be used with Netcat to set up a reverse shell, including Netcat simple shell, Netcat with mkfifo, Python, MSFvenom (Metasploit), PowerShell, and Ruby.</li><li>Netcat can also be used for file transfer, UDP mode for sending and receiving UDP packets, port forwarding, and port redirection.</li></ul>

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