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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 legal limit, that is down to you and I will not be held responsible. This document is for educational research […]

Kali Linux 2018.3 Increase TxPower

16 May, 2018 in Tutorials tagged ALFA / AWUS036ACH / kali / linux / txpower / wifi by admin

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 error and i was unable to open the drive. At this point, I was thinking, hmm ok , let’s just […]

Recovering Data from a bit-lockered drive that is dying

30 Oct, 2016 in Tutorials tagged bitlocker / dislocker / HDD / linux by admin

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 Centos 7/ RHEL7 / Cloudlinux 7 distros . CVE-2016-5195 Why is it called the Dirty COW bug? “A race condition […]

Testing for the dirty cow CVE-2016-5195?

21 Oct, 2016 in News tagged CVE-2016-5195 / dirty cow / escalation / exploit / linux by admin

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 by the malicious newcomer. People, who were having trouble with ransomware support thread and posted their quandary on the […]

Potential Ransomware Hits Linux Servers

31 Aug, 2016 in News tagged FairWare / linux / ransomware / server by admin

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 back when they hit version 2.0 (codename “sana”), however the rolling release was only available via an upgrade from 2.0 […]

Kali Linux – Rolling Edition Released

24 Jan, 2016 in News tagged debian / distro / hacking / kali / linux / tools. os by admin

SSH Kippo Honeypot — 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 off. I decided to fire it back up again and got some interesting hits from 125.88.177.248. It seems to be trying […]

Kippo Honeypot Attack – Linux XorDDOS malware

6 Jan, 2016 in Tutorials tagged DDoS / honeypot / kippo / linux / malware / SSH / XOR by admin

anonymous — 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 that this sounds a little strange, and not your usual computer infection, It’s like a cyber Batman helping people out. […]

Linux.Wifatch ‘malware’ may be patching up security flaws

2 Oct, 2015 in News tagged goodware / hero / linux / malware / patching / Security / symantec / Wifatch by admin

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 150 Gbps, many times greater than a typical company’s infrastructure can withstand. The malware behind the botnet is known as […]

Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks at more than ...

30 Sep, 2015 in News tagged 150Gbps / Akamai / attacker / botnet / DDoS / hacking / linux / network / XOR by admin

We’re still buzzing and recovering from the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences where we finished presenting our new Kali Linux Dojo, which was a blast. With the help of a few good people, the Dojo rooms were set up ready for the masses – where many generated their very […]

Kali Linux 2.0 upgrade to Sana now available

11 Aug, 2015 in News tagged hacking / kali / kali 2.0 / Kali fu / linux / metasploit by admin

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 of Kali Linux and it’s looking as if they are really happy with how it’s looking so far. There’s a lot […]

Kali Linux 2.0 (Sana) Release Day Scheduled

7 Jul, 2015 in News tagged kali / linux / OS / release date by admin