Even though I switched to Ubuntu a while ago, I decided to expand my home-lab and also add Kali Linux into VirtualBox. The installation process went smooth, up to one point, and then boom. Fuc*** error pop-up: "An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: select a…
Read moreBack in the years when I started messing around with Linux distro's, my first choices were Mandriva, Suse and Ubuntu. Since then, Mandriva became Mandrake. Otherwise, the rest of the distributions I used to work on, kept their names - btw, I loved Suse and Ubuntu. In the office, we managed to find out the admin passwords and we were able to install games on our o…
Read moreHowdy, pirates! In my previous (very old) tutorial , I tried to show you how to create a script that will automatically update and upgrade your Kali Linux installation. Since this post is from 2015, you might guess it's actually not working with the current version of Kali. So, I had to figure out something else. In case you're lazy enough to click on the lin…
Read moreNessus is a proprietary vulnerability scanner developed by Tenable, Inc. For more information you can visit their website here . Nessus should be a must-have for any penetration tester. Below are the steps on how to install Nessus in Kali Linux. Download the latest version from here - look for the Debian version (amd64.deb). At the time of writing this tutorial, the …
Read moreThe default browser in Kali Linux is Iceweasel - in comparison, the default browser in previous backtrack installations has been Firefox, but this also comes from one main difference: Kali is Debian based and Backtrack was based on Ubuntu. Iceweasel is only a rebranded version of Firefox. If you have whatever reasons and you need to install Firefox in Kali, fo…
Read moreYou might have noticed that , by default, the volume is muted on system startup in Kali Linux – this is more annoying then helpful sometimes. If you want to get rid of adjusting your volume every time your system boots-up, here's how you can fix this. First, install alsa utils: open a console window (for windows users it's the older brother of "comm…
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