Lynis - Vulnerability and Malware Scanner in Kali Linux

Project information

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/dvd).

Lynis assists auditors in performing Basel II, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance audits.

Intended audience:
Security specialists, penetration testers, system auditors, system/network managers.

Examples of audit tests:
- Available authentication methods
- Expired SSL certificates
- Outdated software
- User accounts without password
- Incorrect file permissions
- Firewall auditing

Current state:
Stable releases are available, development is active.

System requirements:
- Compatible operating system (see 'Supported operating systems')
- Default shell
Supported operating systems
Tested on:
- Arch Linux
- CentOS
- Debian
- Fedora Core 4 and higher
- FreeBSD
- Gentoo
- Knoppix
- Mac OS X
- Mandriva 2007
- OpenBSD 4.x
- OpenSolaris
- OpenSuSE
- PcBSD
- PCLinuxOS
- Red Hat, RHEL 5.x
- Slackware 12.1
- Solaris 10
- Ubuntu

Download Lynis Script

VIDEO :

How to Change Hostname in Kali Linux

Kali Linux is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive Security, a provider of world-class information security training and penetration testing services. In addition to Kali Linux, Offensive Security also maintains the Exploit Database and the free online course, Metasploit Unleashed.

Download Kali Linux

VIDEO :

How to install bleachbit in ubuntu / Linux mint

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean a thousand applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

Features

BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.

• Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.


• Multi-platform: Linux and Windows


• Free of charge


• Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)


• No adware, spyware, malware, or browser toolbars


• Translated to 60 languages


• Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery


• Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)


• Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files


• Portable app for Windows: run without installation


• Command line interface for scripting and automation


• CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML


• Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 1200+ additional cleaners


• Frequent software updates with new features

Uses

Use BleachBit to:

• Free disk space


• Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files


• Maintain privacy


• Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)


• Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space

Installation Cmd : sudo apt-get install bleachbit

Click Here to Download bleachbit For Windows and Ubuntu

VIDEO :

How to install Liferea (Feed Reader) in Ubuntu and Linux mint

Liferea is a popular feed reader (news aggregator) for Linux-based systems that has an easy-to-use UI (user interface) written in GTK and it can be integrated smoothly in Gnome-based desktop environments. Liferea supports many web syndication formats such as RSS, OPML, Atom, etc. It also allows users to read RSS feeds offline (offline reading).
Liferea has been updated recently to version 1.8.12 which is now compatible with the Tiny Tiny RSS news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator.

 Liferea 1.8.12 Installation

Liferea 1.8.12 can be easily installed in Ubuntu/Linux Mint with the following commands from the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liferea/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install liferea
NOTE: PPA installation for version 1.8.12 is currently available for Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 14 only.

VIDEO :