Fixing or Setting Bridged Network on VMware Workstation for Kali LInux ( 2018)

If your Kali Linux Virtual Machine not accepting bridged connection from VMWare Workstation

1) Stop Virtual machine.
2) Run VMWare Workstation as admin
3) Open Virtual Network Editor. Edit --- Virtual Network Editor
4) Remove network VMnet0
5) Add Network VMnet0
6) Restart VMWare Workstation
7) Start guest and reset connection

Convert DNS name to IP address in bulk text file

Just really useful script

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Convert-DNS-name-to-IP-e74f8b01

foreach ($computer in (get-content C:\computers.txt)) { 
  Try{  
    [system.net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($computer) | Foreach-Object { 
      add-content -path C:\computersips.txt -value "$computer,$($_.IPAddressToString)" 
    } 
  } Catch { 
    add-content -path C:\computersips.txt -value "$computer,Cannot resolve hostname" 
  } 
}

Nmap result parser to CVE. Simple Nmap Parser

Found this little gem for parsing nMap result for reports.

Simple Nmap Parser

https://www.hackwhackandsmack.com/?p=441

Bulk IP CIDR to IP list converter,

This is useful for OpenVAS
https://www.cidrcalculator.com/ipv4/cidr-to-ip-list-bulk.html?lang=en

Can't connect to OPENVAS from external network. Fix

/lib/systemd/system/greenbone-security-assistant.service

changed --listen=127.0.0.1 to --listen=0.0.0.0 
then after changing and saving

Stop and start Openvas service.

Nesuss Excluding list of IP from scan

Recently I found that I need to exclude some IPs from scan.
As I did it in windows :

In the c:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\conf\nessusd.rules


# Target Syntax: accept|reject address/netmask:port[-port_max]
#
# Reject any target on 10.42.***
 reject 65.132.***
 reject 50.233.***
 reject 96.93.***
 reject 216.174.***

As this IPs were in the different places subnets, i used this way. May be there is different and better way.

Fixing connection to Internet for Kali linux on VMWare

When I was trying to connect KALI VM to the network with "BRIDGET" network settings I found that cannot get on Internet, my update upgrade not worked and I got some different errors as :

- Cannot apt-get update. Err:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease

- Unable to locate Package

Here is summary of troubleshooting 

1) Check DNS server, I'm using 8.8.8.8

2) Check if  /etc/apt/sources.list  have record   and it is deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free  and it is non commented.

3)  On VM Edit>Virtual Network Editor  use Restore Defaults buttons ( as admin).

4) On Virutal Network Editor check dropdown menu if it is bridget to the proper interface