Kali and HMA VPN

I recently downloaded an updated version of the Kali 2016.2 VMWare. One of the first items I installed on the VM (after running the OS updates), is the HMA VPN script After downloading the ZIP file, I extracted the hma-openvpn.sh file, marked it as executable, and I was ready to...

Kali VMWare Image - Could Not Get Screen Information

I recently downloaded the Kali 2016.2 VMWare image to my desktop computer. I use a number of the tools on Kali for testing various applications. After downloading the VMWare image, I started the VM and went to change the screen resolution. When I opened the Settings-->Display screen, I was presented...

Y! the Yahoo hack does affect you

Note: This is a cross post from http://blog.sherpamarketing.ca It's been a little over a week since Yahoo confirmed it had been hit with a massive security breach. The hackers gained access to over 500 million user records back in late 2014. To date, this data breach is the largest in...

Slow Hyper-V Guest OS Networking Speeds

This is more a post so that I can recall what the final solution was should I ever run into this again. After configuring our new server and installing two hyper-v virtual servers on the host OS, I noticed that the network transfers within the guest OSs were BRUTALLY slow....

Upgrading Our Build Server

It’s been a long time coming, but we are finally upgrading our build/stage server. Our current server was getting a little long in the tooth. It’s served us well but it is over four years old and was in need of replacement. There was a lot of humming and hawing...