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 »Remove GRUB bootloader from Windows 10
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 »Find exact installation date of Linux
Ran into an interesting question today while trying to debug a problem with a monitoring tool, what was the exact installation date of Linux system on this server? I mean this is something you don’t try to find everyday and for a second I was like … yeah… i don’t …
Read More »Probably moving to Upcloud server from Azure
It’s been almost 3 years I’m with Azure and to be honest I never had any issues. However, I found something interesting happening recently. Everytime my server was hit by high traffic volume (either a post went somwhat viral for some unknown reason – I mean come on, my posts …
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