John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the Unix operating system, it now runs on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs as …
Read More »How to run VLC player as root in Linux? Fixing “VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry” error.
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is one of the most used and popular Media player for Linux users.Very easy to install as it’s available via almost …
Read More »Free DoS Attack Tools
Short for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic. Many DoS attacks, such as the Ping of Death and Teardrop attacks, exploit limitations in the TCP/IP protocols. We will review some of …
Read More »Install MATE Desktop in Kali Linux 2.x (Kali Sana)
MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. MATE has forked a number of applications originating as the GNOME Core Applications, and developers have written several other applications from scratch. The forked applications …
Read More »Check download speed from Linux terminal
Lets say you are logged into a headless server (command line only) and you get a call about slow internet performance across network. Now of course there might be hundreds of reasons for slowness but you managed to narrow it down to the correction between your Gateway proxy and Upper …
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