Malware / hack lab?

[k41zen at live.co.uk (k41zen)]

So my hack lab server is an four year old Dell PowerEdge 400SC running Win2K3 Server,  although I'm about to upgrade it 
to Win2K8. 

I've recently just upgraded the RAM to 4Gb from Crucial. It has a Gigabit NIC and I've just installed a 500Gb SATA 
drive 
which I had spare from a Drobo to host the VM's.

I can fire up a BT4 attack VM along with 4-5 target VM's before the server starts to complain.

On 31 Mar 2010, at 21:07, PJ McGarvey wrote:

> I picked up a newish HP Pavilion laptop, dual core, 4GB ram, Gigabit NIC, esata/firewire ports, but no hdd or ac 
> adapter from Ebay a few months back for $100 because the screen was broken.  This is currently a TVersity media 
> server on my network, but I'm working on getting ESX 3.5 on it so I can run some virtual machines (there were issues 
> with ESX detecting the nic...)
>  
> Not an ideal box for this purpose, but I picked it so it can fit on a shelf in my relatively small home office... 
> it's quiet, not power hungry and the price was right!
>  
> Also... SANS is offering a free Lenovo laptop if you take their OnDemand training by 4/15, I'm signing up soon for 
> the Web App course, might be a good excuse to take some training and get a free laptop for your lab.
>  
> -PJ
>  
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:43:14 -0400
> From: infolookup at gmail.com
> To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Malware / hack lab?
>
> In terms of setting up a hack lab if you are looking for hardware the have some sweet deals on Servers 
> http://www.pacificgeek.com/nooner.asp?P=SS, also check out 
> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/building-a-hacklab excellent presentation on setting up a hacklab.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:27 AM, k41zen <k41zen at live.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just recently built one and found these resources very useful:
>
>        http://www.securityaegis.com/network-pentest-lab/
>
>        http://www.securityaegis.com/pentest-lab-web-application-edition/
>
>        http://pauldotcom.com/2009/12/automating-my-vmware-lab.html
>
>        http://blog.infosanity.co.uk/category/lab/
>
> Also try this:
>
>        http://www.vyatta.com/
>
> Its an Open Source alternative to Cisco networking kit. They have a VM image too!
>
> On 31 Mar 2010, at 02:13, Ali Emirlioglu wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I'm sure this has been covered before but my gmail searches are failing miserably. I'm re-building my malware / 
> > hack lab using vmware to include more up-to-date OSes, patches, etc. and was wondering what other people's virtual 
> > environments looked like. Which OSes, service packs, patches, etc. are you running in your lab?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ali
>
>  
>
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