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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Whonix : Debian GNU/Linux based Security-focused Linux distribution

1. Even if one is not doing anything wrong, he is being watched and recorded in real time as Edward Snowden revealed few years back. Most Internet users value online anonymity, with majority saying they have taken steps to remove or mask their digital footprints, and reporting that they have taken steps to avoid being observed by specific people, organizations, or governments.Whonix is a Debian GNU/Linux based security-focused Linux distribution which aims to provide privacy, security and anonymity on the internet. The operating system consists of two virtual machines, a "Workstation" and a Tor "Gateway", running Debian GNU/Linux. All communications are forced through the Tor network.This post gives you screen-shots of installation and execution of the virtual appliances involved.

2. The Gateway VM is responsible for running Tor, and has two virtual network interfaces. One of these is connected to the outside Internet via NAT on the VM host, and is used to communicate with Tor relays. The other is connected to a virtual LAN that runs entirely inside the host.

3. The Workstation VM runs user applications and is connected only to the internal virtual LAN, and can directly communicate only with the Gateway, which forces all traffic coming from the Workstation to pass through the Tor network. The Workstation VM can "see" only IP addresses on the Internal LAN, which are the same in every Whonix installation.

4. Download the two virtual machines ie the Gateway and the workstation from https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VirtualBox

5. Once you download the two machines as above from the link in reference,the following screen-shots will assist you in installation of the same.The two downloaded files are seen below :

Instead of typically creating a virtual machine and then mounting a vdi,in this case more simply we have to just import the .ova appliance,rest is in auto mode.

Agree to the T&C

Will take few minutes loading

Import

Agree again

Import appliance of the workstation

So u have two machines in the virtualbox console as seen in the bottom two listing below :

Just click both with the start button...and the machine start

Updated TOR download

Here we see the IP address relating to Budapest Hungary....and thats surely not the user....:-)

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Kali Linux 2 : Installing and Setting up OPENVAS

1. This post will be useful for users who have just installed Kali Linux 2 and wish to install and setup OPENVAS.OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution. The framework is part of GreenBone Networks commercial vulnerability management solution from which developments are contributed to the Open Source community since 2009.

2. The following set of commands vide a Kali terminal will be in the following sequence :

:~ apt-get update

:~ apt-get -y upgrade

:~ apt-get install openvas

:~ openvas-check-setup

after you run the open-check-setup command ,there is a possibility of something going wrong during installation...if there are some errors ...do the following at the terminal

:~ openvasmd --rebuild

next you might be prompted to create a user

:~ openvasmd --create-user= --role=Admin && openvasmd --user= --new-password=yourpassword

:~ greenbone-certdata-sync

Run the check setup again :

:~ openvas-check-setup

the check setup screen should look like below :

Final step to the access will need to browse you at the link as below to access Greenbone web interface

https://localhost:9392

Thats all...start exploring the interface

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Quantifying your WEB SECURITY

This small presentation will sail through a set of questions for any web/Internet user and will mark for every question as the user decides to answer.The safety score as it ends up lets the user know of where he stands in terms of IT SECURITY on the web!!!!

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Harden your LinkedIn Settings : A Necessity Now

Most of us are part of various Social Engineering Sites and keep updating ourselves via status updates, pictures and tweeting small life updates. Related Privacy and Security issues in respect of these social engineering sites available is already a serious concern among users. Additionally for these all social engineering sites/applications whether accessible on a desktop or a mobile, we all are not so serious responding and interacting but that’s the difference when we see viz-a-viz LinkedIn. When it is LinkedIn…we are mostly serious…no jokes, no clips, no tagging, no personal comments, no WOWs…it’s all professional. And when most of us take it seriously, we also feed serious inputs on it. But do we take necessary precautions too?...I have mostly seen a negated curve amongst my friend circle….hardly anyone has spared time to configure LinkedIn Privacy and Security settings. In this post I bring you out basic and necessary configuration steps involved to harden your LinkedIn interface to the world.

Harden your LinkedIn Settings : A Necessity Now from anupriti

Monday, December 01, 2014

Configuring and using OPENVPN in UBUNTU@14.04 LTS

1. VPN as discussed recently in my post here is on-way becoming a routine necessity for each one of us.In this post I bring you a screen shot and command terminal step by step procedure to configure and use OPENVPN,an open source application vide which a Ubuntu user can tunnel any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP or TCP port and additionally configure a scalable, load-balanced VPN server farm using one or more machines which can handle thousands of dynamic connections from incoming VPN clients.OpenVPN is the best and most recommended open-source VPN software world-wide. It is the most secure VPN option. You need to download the open-source OpenVPN Client and our configuration and certificate bundle from the links on site shown below (use TCP if you cannot connect to UDP due to network restriction).

Steps involved :

- Open a sudo terminal

- Install openvpn by typing

sudo apt-get install openvpn

Goto http://www.vpnbook.com/freevpn and Download one of the VPNBook OpenVPN certificate bundles as seen available in the screenshot below :

After downloading either of the above certificates as seen....do extract the contents in one folder and these should look like as seen below :

If there is any issue with the installation part,install the openvpn client by synaptics as shown below :

Once done ...go to the sudo terminal and type the following :

openvpn --config vpnbook-euro1-tcp443.ovpn

As you see the message INITIALIZATION SEQUENCE COMPLETED...u r on with the VPN..

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Maltego : Open source Intelligence and Forensics Application

1. In this post I am giving a stepped screen shot for installing and using the application MALTEGO that comes inbuilt to Kali Linux.Maltego, is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of information in a meaningful way. Coupled with its graphing libraries, Maltego, allows to identify key relationships between information and identify previously unknown relationships between them. It is a must-have tool in the forensics.security and intelligence fields.

2. Maltego permits creating custom entities, allowing it to represent any type of information in addition to the basic entity types which are part of the software. The basic focus of the application is analyzing real-world relationships between people, groups, websites, domains, networks, internet infrastructure, and affiliations with online services such as Twitter and Facebook.