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On the 9th of December 2021, the world became aware of a critical RCE vulnerability in the Log4j open source package that is buried in the software stacks of many organisations (CVE-2021-44228). Versions of Log4j2 >= 2.0-beta9 and

Data sets of the top 1 million Internet sites are simply compiled lists of web sites (or domains) that are found to have the most traffic. What follows are some of the most popular and well known data sets of the Top 1 Million Sites. Depending on the methodology used, the results can have significant […]

As of December 2018 PHP 5 and 7.0 became End of Life. It is now July 2019 and up to 74% of PHP powered sites in the top 1 million are running software that is End of Life. This means there is no support and more importantly if new vulnerabilities are discovered, there will be […]

In this setup guide, we step through the process of getting OpenVAS (GVM) running on Kali 2019. Installing OpenVAS into a Kali-based system is made much easier by the inclusion of a quick setup script. When using Kali Linux for OpenVAS scanning, resource usage should always be taken into account. Whether running Kali in a […]

Running Nmap on Windows is not as difficult or problematic as it was in the past. Nmap is supported on Windows 7 and higher with performance close to if not quite as good as Linux based operating systems. The majority of users still do use *nix based systems however a good number of people use […]

DataSploit Installation Often used with the Kali Linux penetration testing distribution, installing within Kali or Ubuntu Linux is a simple process. Ensure you have git and pip installed. test@ubuntu:~/$ git clone https://github.com/datasploit/datasploit test@ubuntu:~/$ cd datasploit test@ubuntu:~/datasploit/$ pip install -r requirements.txt test@ubuntu:~/datasploit/$ mv config_sample.py config.py test@ubuntu:~/datasploit/$ python datasploit.py -h True usage: datasploit.py [-h] [-i SINGLE_TARGET] [-f […]