Posted in 2016
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
- 16 September 2016
Bruce Schneier has an interesting article about a development that brings back memories from when Stuxnet was discovered.
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state. China and Russia would be my first guesses.
Kali Linux 2016.2
- 04 September 2016
Last week Kali Linux 2016.2 was released so it was time to make a new VirtualBox instance for it to see the difference from the release in January. But let’s automate a little bit to quickly rebuild virtual machines for Kali Linux.
Let’s create the virtual machine and boot it. In this example it is bound to the wireless network card and allocates an 16 GB disk image as the default 8 GB size for Debian is too small and 10 GB is the minimum advised.