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Install Synaptic Package Manager in Kali Linux

About   Synaptic Package Manager Synaptic Package Manager is GTK+- based GUI for apt (Advance Packaging Tool)- the package management used by Debian and its derivatives. Synaptic Package Manager- a very handy tool, used to install, remove and update software packages and add repositories . Though, based on deb packages but can be used on the system bsed on RPM packages. Features Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages System-wide upgrade Package search utility Manage package repositories Find packages by name, description and several other attributes Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter Sort packages by name, status, size or version Browse available online documentation related to a package Download the latest changelog of a package Lock packages to the current version Force the installation of a specific package version Undo/Redo of selections Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager Allows creation of download scrip...

Kali Cleaner: A small cleaner for Kali Linux

What it does? It cleans apt cache. Remove old config files. Remove old kernels. Empty every trashes. What you can do is to save the script on your Desktop. Make it executable and clean kali linux. Ex: root@kali:~/Desktop# ./kali_cleaner.sh Download: https://github.com/MasterButcher/kali-cleaner or you can use command in terminal: git clone https://github.com/MasterButcher/kali-cleaner.git

** An Important Instruction

As kali linux is new to all of us, being a learner we all come with a new issue and try to resolve it as quickly as possible. While installing software, most of us don't know the dependency packages that are installed or removed from the system. A great feature that kali linux provide is that when we run apt  command, it checks the available package/s in the repository and accordingly asks if to install. Meanwhile, it also checks the un-necessary packages that is not required. Here is a command that removes the un-necessary packages. From the root terminal window, please type  apt-get autoremove . When you hit 'return' or 'enter'  key, it checks the packages that is to be removed from the system. Please read those packages carefully, before you make confirmation to remove it from the system.

How to install qbittorrent in Kali Linux

About qbittorrent :  qbittorrent  is a torrent client, an alternative to utorrent . It's a GUI based cross platform free software based on Qt toolkit. We know that Kali Linux's base package is constructed in Debian, so we need to add  http://http.packages.debian.org to sources.list file. To do this, 1. open any text editor and edit sources.list  file, located in /etc/apt directory, with an entry deb http://http.packages.debian.org import deb packages . 2. type apt-get install qbittorrent  on the root terminal window and press enter 3. Once qbittorrent is installed, type qbittorrent on the root terminal window and press enter and, you are set to go.

Add Repository in Kali Linux

Kali linux is a debian base linux distribution designed for penetration testing. Here, I will give a tutorial on how to add a repository on Kali Linux 1.0.3 with ease. Repository is a archival software, where software in this archive can be retrieved by the user to use. Please click here  to check for the new blog post on repository.  1. Open root terminal and type this code.    root@kali:~#  leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list 2. Add all repositories, i.e. : deb http://http.kali.org/ /kali main contrib non-free deb http://http.kali.org/ /wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main contrib non-free deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main/debian-installer deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main/debian-installer deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-securit...

Armitage in Kali Linux

About Armitage Armitage is a scriptable red team collaboration tool for Metasploit that visualizes targets, recommends exploits and exposes the advanced post-exploitation features in the framework. Through one Metasploit instance, your team will: Use the same sessions Share hosts, captured data, and downloaded files Communicate through a shared event log Run bots to automate red team tasks Armitage is open source software developed by Raphael Mudge's company Strategic Cyber LLC. However, Cobalt Strike is the commercially supported big brother of Armitage. Armitage organizes Metasploit's capabilities around the hacking process. There are features for discovery, access, post-exploitation, and maneuver. This section describes these features at a high-level, the rest of this manual covers these capabilities in detail. Armitage's dynamic workspaces let you define and switch between target criteria quickly. Use this to segment thousands of hosts into target sets. Armitage also ...