Category: Linux
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Kali on Windows: The Full Monty!
This is the third in my series of articles on installing Kali Linux on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Before performing these steps, make sure you have performed all of the necessary steps from the previous two articles, found here: Kali on Windows Kali on Windows: Adding the Desktop Of course, in the first article…
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Kali on Windows: Adding the Desktop
In my last article (Kali on Windows) I showed you how to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on your Windows client, and then install an instance of Kali Linux in it so that you could have the functionality of Kali without the separation of a hypervisor… or worse, needing a second computer. The…
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Kali on Windows
This will be the first in a series of three (3) articles that I am writing to take my readers step-by-step through the installation of Windows Subsystem for Linux, installing Kali Linux on that, and then converting that minimal installation into a complete Kali toolset, including the desktop, and the ability to connect to it…
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Kali on VirtualBox: Start to Done
A few months ago I wrote an article called Kali on Hyper-V: Start to Done. I teach a lot of cybersecurity classes, and Kali Linux is a distro that includes most of the tools that so many cybersecurity professionals will use on a daily basis. When I wrote the article I was not thinking that…
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Linux on Active Directory
I remember a decade or so ago when Microsoft tried to reach out to the Open Source community and get them to give their products and environments a chance. ‘Microsoft loves Linux!’ was the slogan, with a big heart in there. I remember joking with some of my colleagues that they really did not, but…
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Kali on Hyper-V: Start to Done.
**See notes on SecurityOnion at the bottom! It is funny where life can take you. I have been a specialist (and in some things maybe even expert) in so many different technologies over the course of my career, so when I sat down a few weeks ago to create a Kali Linux virtual machine on…
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Installing Oracle Linux 6 U3 on Hyper-V 2012 with LIS 3.4
Everyone runs Windows… okay, that is not entirely true, but by 2012 it is the rare datacentre that does not have any Windows running. I have been crisscrossing the country and indeed traversing the globe telling people how wonderful Hyper-V and Microsoft’s virtualization story is as good as or better than it’s competition, whether that…
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Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V 3.4
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/09/11/linux-integration-services-for-hyper-v-3-4.aspx. Microsoft has been taking tremendous steps to prove that Hyper-V is not simply the best hypervisor for Windows users and administrators, it is also a viable option if you have Linux servers as well. Last week…