OpenVAS 0 byte pdf | Backtrack Linux | If OpenVAS is creating 0 byte PDF reports, you will need to install some extra latex packages. For Backtrack Linux, just install this one meta package to pull in all that is required: $ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra Done! Here is an example PDF.
How-To Tor and Windows with Internet Explorer
How-To Tor and Windows with Internet Explorer | It is possible to use Tor with Internet Explorer in Windows. I’ll show you how! First, install the Vidalia Bundle for Windows from the Tor download page: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en Vidalia Bundle Once the bundle has been installed, start Vidalia. Next, go to the Connections tab of Internet Options and click on LAN settings. Check to use
Linux Security Weekly | 020
Linux Security Weekly | 020 | Hello and welcome to Linux Security Weekly for October 7, 2012. Linux Security Weekly is the audio podcast which covers current and important security vulnerabilities in Linux and open source software for the past week. Show Notes: News Wireshark 1.8.3 and 1.6.11 Released http://www.wireshark.org/news/20121002.html PostgreSQL Updates 2012-09-24 released http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1416/ Red Hat 5.9 beta out
fping for ICMP Discovery and Monitoring
fping for ICMP Discovery and Monitoring | fping is an ICMP command line utility to verify ICMP reponses from any number of targets. fping is a better choice than ping for scripting tasks as it is able to check a list or range of IP addresses in numerical order to discover ICMP response. I’ll show you some basic info on using fping!
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. | Can’t add a user in Linux because of this: ‘useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.’ ? Here’s what to check! $ sudo useradd -m -g users -s /bin/bash jsmith useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. If you receive this message even when running with sudo, there are small lock files that are causing
Online regex checker
Online regex checker | If you ever needed to validate regular expressions, this site is invaluable. http://regexpal.com This site has really saved my bacon more than once. Check it out!
Linux Security Weekly | 019
Linux Security Weekly | 019 | Hello and welcome to Linux Security Weekly for September 30, 2012. Linux Security Weekly is the audio podcast which covers current and important security vulnerabilities in Linux and open source software for the past week. Show Notes: News phpMyAdmin backdoor http://sourceforge.net/blog/phpmyadmin-back-door/ http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2012-5.php Google Chrome 22 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/09/stable-channel-update_25.html Slackware 14.0 http://slackware.com/announce/14.0.php python 3.3.0 http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/ Distro Updates
Install BIND in Red Hat 6 or CentOS 6
Install BIND in Red Hat 6 or CentOS 6 | As of Red Hat 6 and CentOS 6, the DNS server bind is super easy to get up and running. Here’s how it works! Install bind: $ sudo yum install bind Start bind – the service is called named $ sudo /etc/init.d/named start Generating /etc/rndc.key: [ OK ] Starting named: [ OK ] Done. If
Linux Security Weekly | 018
Linux Security Weekly | 018 | Hello and welcome to Linux Security Weekly for September 23, 2012. Linux Security Weekly is the audio podcast which covers current and important security vulnerabilities in Linux and open source software for the past week. Show Notes: News Samba 4.0.0 rc1 https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/rc/WHATSNEW-4-0-0rc1.txt SSLyze 0.5 SSL scanner https://github.com/iSECPartners/sslyze prenus – pretty nessus http://labs.asteriskinfosec.com.au/tag/prenus/ Distro Updates
Drupal Security Notes
Drupal Security Notes | Check out this article on Drupal Security: Drupal Security Notes If you find this topic interesting, you may also be interested in Expert Pen Testing or CISSP training. Cool!