Vulnerability scanning is a crucial phase of a penetration test and having an updated vulnerability scanner in your security toolkit can often make a real difference by helping you discover overlooked vulnerable items. For this reason, we’ve manually packaged the latest and newly released OpenVAS 8.0 tool and libraries for …
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My Razer 2016 laptop had Windows 10, Kali and Ubuntu installed but after a Windows update Linux partitions became inaccessible. I removed both Kali and Ubuntu partitions including SWAP but GRUB was till there. I needed to remove GRUB safely without breaking anything else and the following method on how …
Read More »Kali Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux
Kali Linux developers and Offensive Security team is always trying to find new ideas and better ways to run Kali Linux. With the recent introduction of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows 10, it opened a new way to run Kali Linux. Tell me, do you play games? Sure. …
Read More »PuTTY alternatives
PuTTY is the most popular SSH client for Windows based systems. In fact it’s so popular that people actually install it in Linux (apt-get install putty)I. PuTTY is easy to use and you can save a lot of preferences. However, is PuTTY is best? To be honest, I think not. …
Read More »VMware KVM mode with VMware Workstation
This is pretty old trick but not heavily used. You can run your Virtual Machines in VMware KVM mode with VMware Workstation 10.x or higher. This has been available to VMWare Workstation users since 2014 but I sincerely don’t know how many people actually uses it or even know about …
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