Following on from my "getting Metaploitable2 running on KVM/QEMU" post, I thought I had better get round to trying to exploit some of the vulerabilities on this intentially vulnerable virtual machine. Easiest place to start (so I thought) would be the low hanging fruit of a poorly configured NFS server which …

Metsploitable Metasploitable 2 is an intentionally vulnerable Ubuntu Linux virtual machine that is designed for testing common vulnerabilities. This virtual machine (VM) is compatible with VMWare, VirtualBox, and other common virtualization platforms. From https://docs.rapid7.com/metasploit/metasploitable-2/ Download …

Introduction Working with archives is something that I find myself doing when I am tweaking with things in my Linux environment or installing some tool that is not from a package manager. Every single time I do this, I find that I need to look up tutorials on how to work tar - I would have thought by now that I would …

A small note on what you can do to troubleshoot and diagnose issues with NVidia GPUs (NOTE: this is GPUs, not GFX cards). You can check for issues by using NVidia SMI or checking for Xid errors in the OS event logs: Use Nvidia SMI. Linux and Vmware nvidia-bug-report.sh Generates a diagnostic bundle Windows c:\Program …

I use VMware on my Raspberry Pi, however these do not quite have the capacity to run the SHD appliance, and as I have no other VMware host, I decided to see if I could run it on a QEMU host. Spoiler.... I can! and here is how to do it. Convert the downloaded .ova file to qcow2 format. See my previous post on how to do …

This is something that I do relatively often, and yet, for some reason, I always forget how to do this and end up having to look up how to guides... well here comes another one! It is possible to have a QEMU host boot a virtual machine created for ESXi or VMware Workstation Player. In order do this, you will need an …