KDE Plasma, NVIDIA Prime and External Monitor problems
A tutorial explaining a workaround fix for KDE plasma / NVIDIA crashing to a black background and no taskbar in Kubuntu with an external monitor.
Hack The Box Walkthrough Guide To: Doctor
Start with a nmap scan, then we want to open burp suite and navigate to...
How to install Tilix on Kali Linux
Do you love using Tilix, but found that the latest version of Kali Linux doesn't seem to support installing it from the repo? Then you are like me and found…
dirty_sock: Linux Privilege Escalation (via snapd)
In January 2019, current versions of Ubuntu Linux were found to be vulnerable to local privilege escalation due to a bug in the snapd API. This repository contains the original…
CVE-2019-8912 | Use After Free Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability for many Linux Kernels
Linux Kernel is prone to an arbitrary code-execution vulnerability.An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel. Failed exploits may result in denial-of-service…
Kali Linux 2018.3 Increase TxPower
Increasing the TXpower above what is allowed in your country can be illegal. If you decide to make these changes to your system and use the wireless above the allowed…
How to Recove Data from a bit-lockered drive that is dying
So today i go home and fired up the Windows 10 PC with all of my drives Bitlockered. Long story short, one of my drives was throwing up some I/O…
Testing for the dirty cow CVE-2016-5195?
On october 19 2016, the Dirty Cow vulnerability went public (which is kernel privilege escalation vulnerability) . From what I have read and test, the exploit is working only on…
Potential Ransomware Hits Linux Servers
Linux running web servers appear to be at risk of a new strain of ransomware called FairWare. Three Linux administrators, at least for now, have already complained about being targeted…
Kali Linux – Rolling Edition Released
Welcome back to the RedPacket Security website. An important milestone for Offensive Security has come with the first public release of Kali Linux rolling distribution. Kali switched to a rolling release model…
Kippo Honeypot Attack – Linux XorDDOS malware
So I have had my kippo honeypot running for a while and got some pretty good statistics from it. But after a while I got bored and turned it all…
Linux.Wifatch ‘malware’ may be patching up security flaws
SYMANTEC is reporting about Linux.Wifatch They are suggesting that it might be a good guy type of internet threat that wants to solve problems with the Internet of Things. I know…
Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks at more than 150Gbps
The XOR DDoS botnet can generate attacks more powerful than most businesses can withstand A Linux botnet has grown so powerful that it can generate crippling distributed denial-of-service attacks at over…
Kali Linux 2.0 (Sana) Release Day Scheduled
The Team behind Kali Linux have been awfully quiet lately, which usually means something is brewing below the surface. In the past few months they have been working feverishly on the next generation…