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WPScan in Kali Linux

WPScan is a WordPress vulnerability scanner written in ruby, which is capable of detecting common security vulnerabilities as well as listing all plugins used by a website hosting WordPress. WPScan is pre-installed in Kali Linux.  WPscan is a nice tool if you want to find out how to exploit a WordPress site as it does all of this: Username enumeration (Checks the ‘author’ query-string and the location header). Weak password cracking (This can be multi-threaded and supplied a password list of your choosing). Version enumeration (Finds what version of WordPress they are running by checking meta tags and client side files). Vulneralbility enumeration (Based on what version they are running). Timbthumb file enumeration (Checks for Timthumb exploit). Plugin enumeration (See what plugins they are running). Plugin vulneralbility enumeration (Tells you which, if any, plugins are vulnerable to exploits). Theme enumeration (What theme are they running. Sometimes you can find exploits in the the

How to install Google Chrome in Kali Linux?

OS: Kali Linux 1.0.4 Note:  Before you proceed make sure to keep your kali linux up-to date. Please run apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade from the terminal. 1. Open IceWeasel Browser and goto www.google.com and click on Install Google Chrome  on the above right panel of the box. You can also goto www.google.com/chrome to download Google Chrome. 2. Click on Download Chrome 3. Select the option to download package. As Kali is built on Debian package so you can select 32 bit .deb  or 64 bit .deb (depending upon the type of platform Kali Linux install). I have 32 bit Kali Linux installed in my laptop, so I chose 32 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu) . 4. Choose the location to save google chrome package. 5. Open Terminal  window (make sure you have a privilege of a root  user) and goto the directory of the downloaded file " google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb ". 6. Run dpkg -i  google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb  from the root terminal window. 7. Once setup, you need to

How to install Adobe Flash Player in Kali Linux?

1. goto www.get.adobe.com/flashplayer 2. select .tar.gz for other Linux from the drop down list and click on Download now . 3. it will ask you select the location of the file. browse the location where you want to download the file click on OK . 4. once the file is downloaded, open terminal window and goto the location of downloaded file using cd command 5. check if the file is available in terminal window using ls command (this step is however optional) 7. type tar xzvf install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz in the terminal window to extract the file 8. finally, type cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to copy the files  You are done installing flash player

Installing Kali Linux- A step-by-step instruction

Kali Linux, ver.: 1.0.3 Prerequisites: Minimum 8 GB of HDD space to install Kali Linux For i386 or amd64 architecture, a minimum of 512 MB RAM (1024 MB RAM recommended) An ISO or VMWare image can be downloaded from  Kali Linux  site Here, I am going to guide you step by step to install Kali Linux  (ver. 1.0.2) in a virtual machine. Procedure of installation is very much similar to Backtrack. Click on the above link to download Kali Linux. When you goto this link it will ask you to register, however registration is not mandatory to download Kali Linux. Either, you can register by giving your name or email address to receive information updates or simply you can skip this step and click on " No thanks, just want to download! ". Depending on the type, you can customize your download in ISO  or VMWare  format. Click on " Download Kali" . Once Kali Linux  is downloaded you are ready to install it in a virtual machine. I am using VMWare Player version: 5.0.2 build-103176