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I like to write about my insights from my training on Hack The Box, TryHackMe, and OffSec, exploring offensive security techniques and real-world scenarios. Here are some of my favorite posts that made it onto the blog.

Fix performance problems with VirtualBox

Introduction If you want to use Linux on Windows, a VM is still a good alternative to WSL. Recently I’ve had massive performance problems with my Linux VM’s after installing WSL. Some workarounds are presented below. Symptoms The problems were massively noticed by the following abnormalities. VM is freezing while boot My Kali-VM has partial …

Quickstart with Nessus on Kali Linux      

What is Nessus? Nessus is a vulnerability scanner like OpenVAS. Nessus scans your target for open ports, wrong file permissions, known vulnerabilities, etc. Everythinig is presented in a good-looking and clear GUI with nice additional features like report exporting, different presets for specific scans and monitoring. Install Nessus First of all, you have to register …

Vagrant – A Introduction

What is Vagrant Vagrant is a free tool to create and manage virtual machines. It shorts the process of searching for an OS-Image to install and configure in a single command. Vagrant is very similar to docker but the difference is Vagrant is perfect for the automated and reproducible creation of virtual machines. Docker, on …

Install OpenVAS on Red Hat Linux

A few weeks ago I worte an article for the it-sec blog ceos3c.com. This guide is a step by step manual to install OpenVAS on Red Hat Linux distributions. Many manuals on the internet are not up to date and directing to dead mirrors. This guide is up to date.