Users often request the addition of vulnerability scanners to Kali, most notably the ones that begin with “N”, but due to licensing constraints, we do not include them in the distribution. Fortunately, Kali includes the very capable OpenVAS, which is free and open source. Although we briefly covered OpenVAS in …
Read More »Install, setup, configure and run OpenVAS on Kali Linux
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 …
Read More »Mass delete files in FTP server
Ran into a little problem today, something I don’t really do often and something many would never do! Yeah, I’m talking about FTP .. the old pre-historic service of a thing that was originally RFC’d back in 1971. I had to mass delete files in FTP server, empty a folder …
Read More »Catching bad guys
Ever wondered how the good guys catch bad guys? I meant to say, what’s the process of catching bad guys who create virus, malware, crypto-lockers? It’s sort of a grey area and mostly not discussed very openly about the different methodologies used for Catching bad guys who create and distribute …
Read More »telus.com spam emails to gmail account
Just something I bumped into this morning and decided to quickly write a post. Woke up this morning and first thing I saw is a bunch of spam emails in my Gmail account. I kept getting these spam emails that are said to be sent by me but are sent …
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