When installing Kali Linux on Windows, there could be problems that arise. One such problem that users will encounter is the problem with installing Kali's packages. Windows defender prevents from running and even install them at some points. Sometimes, when you want to install some Kali packages, Windows Defender will identify it as malware and will prevent from installing and running.
Follow this guide in order to fix this issue:
Open Kali Linux through CMD or start menu.
Now by entering the webshells command, Windows Defender will display security...
In this article, we will show how to clear the DNS cache on Microsoft Windows OS.
DNS cache keeps the IP addresses of the web servers. If the web server's location changes before updating the DNS cache, the websites which were located on the last web server, won't load. Therefore, you should clear the DNS cache.
Follow these steps to clear the DNS cache:
Press the Windows Key + R in order to open the run box.
Write CMD inside the box and press enter.
Write the following command in the CMD and press enter.
ipconfig /flushdns
You should receive the...
Install and Configure FTP in Ubuntu 18
Note: At all stages, the commands are logged with Root access, so if you are logged in to Ubuntu 18 by any other user than the Root user, you should enter all commands after the Sudo command.
1- Connect to your Ubuntu 18 via an SSH client. 2. Type the following command to update Ubuntu 18 repositories. apt update 3. After completing the above steps, enter the following command to download and install the VSFTP service. apt install -y vsftpd 4. After the installation is completed, enter the following commands to start the VSFTP service and...
How to use SMTP on Laravel
Laravel is a PHP framework that has been featured today by many developers thanks to its unique features.
Set up SMTP in Laravel Setting SMTP or sending emails in Laravel, like other infrastructure settings are done in the env file. So whether you want to use a SMTP server or SMTP host, you only need the following code in the env file. This file is located in the Laravel main folder. In this article, we will go through using SMTP hosts. In order to do this, you first need to create an email address on your web host and then create the following code in the env...
We have shown how to install Kali Linux on your system, however, sometimes we want to keep the functionality of Windows OS on the machine and use Kali Linux at the same time. This is possible by installing Kali Linux as an app from the Windows store.
First, we have to enable the Linux subsystem on Linux. To do so, follow the steps outlined below.
Run the Windows PowerShell terminal with Administrator access
Enter the following command to add WLS feature to windows.
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
After finishing...
Installing Kali Linux
Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. Kali contains several hundreds of tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics, and Reverse Engineering. Kali Linux is developed, funded and maintained by Offensive Security, a leading information security training company.
At this tutorial, we want to learn to install Kali Linux step by step, but first, let us see the installation prerequisites:
A minimum of 20 GB disk...
Htop is an interactive system monitor, process viewer and process manager designed for Unix systems. Originally designed as an alternative to the Unix program top, it provides much of the same functionality as top, but offers much greater flexibility over how system processes can be viewed. Unlike top, htop provides the full list of running processes instead of the top resource-consuming ones. Htop can display processes as a tree and uses color to provide resource-usage statistics.
Here’s how the htop interface looks like:
Now, let’s see what each field means, starting at the...
Access Linux server using iOS
In order to connect to the Linux VPS server from your iOS device, first of all you will need to set up the server and install SSH server. Note that in this tutorial we will be connecting to a CentOS server.
Install openssh-server package:
sudo yum install -y openssh-server;
Now let’s move forward in connecting from your iOS device. Note that during this tutorial we will be working with “serverauditor” SSH client.
Download “Termius” from the AppStore
Open the application and create a free account.
Once you’re...
Both Telnet and Secure Shell (i.e. SSH) are network protocols used to connect to remote servers and both have been used widely at different points in time. Telnet is the original protocol that was used when the internet was first launched in 1969. It was developed to be used in private networks and has no security measures, making it irrelevent when used on public networks. This is the main reason why SSH was developed as a replacement for Telnet. We will discuss the differences between telnet and SSH, however lets first understand what each one is.
What is TELNET?
Telnet is a...
Disk cleanup in CentOS
In this article we will go through some quick commands to clear disk space from your CentOS server. Before we go further, we will need to install the yum-utils package.
yum -y install yum-utils
Cleanup YUM cache
yum clean all
This is a simple command to cleanup the yum caches but this will not remove everything relating to yum.
In order to free up space by orphaned data from removed or disabled repositories we can use the following command:
rm -rf /var/cache/yum
In order to remove the user-cache which is created when the yum command is run through a regular...
