After getting things up and running a few weeks back, the system has sat idle waiting for me to do something with. Low and behold, the feeds were well out of date. Apparently you have to manually create a cron entry to update the feeds. Follow the steps below to get it done. Snagged from https://sysadmin-ramblings.blogspot.com/2017/04/update-openvas-feeds.html […]
32 Thread Xeon Build For All! I came across a build article earlier in the week thanks to Clinton Peterson from clintiswrong.com that made me salivate. Hardware lust took over and I might just have to give it a whirl! Take a gander and see what you think regarding this affordable Xeon solution! Original article: […]
Greenbone/OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanner Following on with my last post regarding security, for those that are trying to install OpenVAS on Ubuntu 16.04, here’s a decent article. I did not write it, but copied it from http://olivermarshall.net/how-to-install-openvas-9-on-ubuntu-16/ in an effort to save myself some time in the future if I lose the link. Please check out the […]
Why is security patching so difficult? If you’re only trying to monitor for one particular product, things are in fact quite simple. Say Apache for example… monitoring feeds for any vulnerabilities within their http server is quite easy. That’s well and good if I only care about that particular package/software. What happens when I want […]