Infrastructure security improvements

The infrastructure team would like to acknowledge the work of security researcher Joël Aviad Ossi from pentest in helping us improve some security weaknesses in our infrastructure. No user data was at risk nor were our downloads vulnerable at any time;...
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phpMyAdmin 5.1.1 is released

We at the phpMyAdmin project are pleased to release phpMyAdmin 5.1.1, a bugfix release.
There are many new bug fixes; a few highlights include:

Fixes for several PHP errors
Fixes for "$cfg['DefaultTabDatabase']" and other related configuration directi...
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Kaboxer – Kali Applications Boxer

On and off for the last 18 months we have been working on Kaboxer, and just before Kali 2021.1, it is ready to say “Hello World” (then it will start shipping you applications).
TL;DR - What is this?
What is the name about, Kaboxer? Kali App...
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Ampere Hardware & Kali Linux

When Ampere partnered with Debian, this caught our eye. We were aware that our current ARM cloud provider was soon ending support for arm64 servers (which we use for our build daemons).
At Kali Linux, one of the things which is important to us, is that...
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3 best free VPN you can test without credit card needed

I’ve been looking for a VPN where I can test its performance for free to sign up that no need to input my credit card credential before I can use. I am doing this research for my personal reason which may be different to your purpose. And later as I see the advantages of it, […]
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Basic insights of DITO Telecom in the Philippines

I’ve been following DITO since it was announced in the 4th quarter of 2020. And it’s been trending in the stock market for the time being. DITO is formerly the Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company (Mislatel) and it is partnered with China Telecommunication Corp. with 40% shares. They just launched March 8, 2021 their welcome offer […]
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phpMyAdmin 5.1.0 is released

We at the phpMyAdmin project are pleased to publish phpMyAdmin 5.1.0.
There are many new features and bug fixes; a few highlights include:

Improve virtuality dropdown for MariaDB > 10.1
Added an option to perform ALTER ONLINE (ALGORITHM=INPLACE) wh...
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Kali Linux + Mr. Robot ARG Society

Many of you may have known about the show Mr Robot and its unique connection to Kali Linux. But there is a little bit more that we have not talked about due to NDAs. But it appears the mystery is over, the red tape has been removed, and we now wanted t...
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phpMyAdmin 4.9.7 and 5.0.4 are released

Welcome to the release of phpMyAdmin version 4.9.7 and 5.0.4. These are bug fix releases to address packaging problems with 4.9.6 and 5.0.3. Version 5.0.3 includes a few other minor bugs as well.
Fixed in both:

Two factor authentication was broken
Inc...
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phpMyAdmin 4.9.6 and 5.0.3 are released

Hello,
The phpMyAdmin team announces the release of both phpMyAdmin versions 4.9.6 and 5.0.3.
Both versions contain several important security fixes:

PMASA-2020-5 XSS vulnerability with transformation feature
PMASA-2020-6 SQL injection vulnerability w...
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Win-KeX Version 2.0

We have been humbled by the amazing response to our recent launch of Win-KeX. After its initial release, we asked ourselves if that is truly the limit of what we can achieve or could we pull off something incredible to mark the 25th anniversary of Hack...
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4 Factors affecting slow mobile data connection

The connection these days are so important from our day to day living not only in the Philippines but all over the world. Online schooling started and work from home has become the new normal until vaccine is available to prevent the virus from spreading. We will encounter slow connection for different reasons that sometimes […]
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I can access my Samsung S9+ now with Samsung Dex app

I’ve been searching for an application like where you can control your mobile device while working with your PC or Mac. Sometimes I want to use that Android application to create some content for marketing which are not available for desktop. However, the small screen and touched interface are frustrating. With this Samsung Dex application, […]
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3 Screen capturing tool to use on your desktop

Screen capture is a tool to share or to save some important details to remember while working on your desktop. Lightshot – my favorite screen capturing tool because it is very lightweight and it is free. Pros: Easy to use with PrtScn function on your keyboard Has a ruler indicator Option to save to computer […]
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Kali NetHunter Updates

Many outstanding discoveries have been made by our vibrant NetHunter community since 2020.1, so we have decided to publish a mid-term release to showcase these amazing developments on selected devices.
Massive thanks to our dedicated developers @Kimoco...
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Kali Linux 2020.1a Release

Just a quick update to the 2020.1 release we put out last month. We made some major changes to the installers, and some people had a few issues with some of the images we released. So, we made some slight alternations to smooth things out and make the ...
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Kali Everywhere!

There was some recent noise around children and their use of Kali, so @Re4son stepped up with a new way to run Kali in locations where it may have been hard to in the past. This allows you to run Kali instances inside other Unix systems, making Kali ev...
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Kali Default Non-Root User

For years now, Kali has inherited the default root user policy from BackTrack. As part of our evaluation of Kali tools and policies we have decided to change this and move Kali to a “traditional default non-root user” model. This change wil...
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