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Re: Intro To Hacking
From: "randori ." <randori82 () hotmail com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:32:30 +0000
There's a good (discontinued) book by Ed Skoudis out there, The Hack Counter-Hack Training Course: A Desktop Seminar. This books gives detailed setup procedures for creating your own physical lab for sec research.
My suggestion though, as others have pointed out, is the use VMWare or the like for your test environment. It's a very powerful and safe way to test security on different systems without having to worry about hardware (besides a beefy machine to run it vmware on).
Hope this helps. Andre Derek Protas Security Engineer | Electus Solutions www.electussolutions.com
From: Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net> Reply-To: barrie () reboot-robot net To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Intro To Hacking Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:55:54 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0Received: from outgoing2.securityfocus.com ([205.206.231.26]) by mc4-f12.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:03:59 -0700 Received: from lists.securityfocus.com (lists.securityfocus.com [205.206.231.19])by outgoing2.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with QMQPid 1CE8414377A; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:02:39 -0600 (MDT)Received: (qmail 23279 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2004 02:50:33 -0000 X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEomd08prOQKqyitlHcuvli Mailing-List: contact security-basics-help () securityfocus com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <security-basics.list-id.securityfocus.com> List-Post: <mailto:security-basics () securityfocus com> List-Help: <mailto:security-basics-help () securityfocus com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:security-basics-unsubscribe () securityfocus com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:security-basics-subscribe () securityfocus com> Delivered-To: mailing list security-basics () securityfocus com Delivered-To: moderator for security-basics () securityfocus com In-Reply-To: <BD996EBF.C5A7%greg () sixx com> References: <BD996EBF.C5A7%greg () sixx com> Message-Id: <1098176154.7155.48.camel () www bsrf org uk>X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Return-Path: security-basics-return-30657-randori82=hotmail.com () securityfocus com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2004 03:03:59.0350 (UTC) FILETIME=[71F1E160:01C4B651]There have been a few concerns on this thread about the placement of a development/insecure staging box on a production LAN. I usually suggest that people intending to do development use a virtual server environment that allows creation of virtual LANs, this way you can keep the development box off your main network and still play with it. I personally use MS virtual Server 2005[1], solely because it's cheaper for me than the offerings by vmware[2] but it does the job extremely well. (I also don't yet know of any OSS alternative for this that provides the same features). I'd suggest either MS Virtual Server or one of the vmware systems (>workstation). I believe you can trial each of the systems listed to see if they fit your needs. Having the ability to build and run lots of OS's and networks on one machine makes testing/playing a breeze as it saves you having a pile of hardware running or unnecessary un-patched systems in your production environment. [1]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/default.mspx [2]http://www.vmware.com/products/ Kind Regards to all. -- Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue http://www.bsrf.org.uk [ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x96025FD0 ] << signature.asc >>
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