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Malware / hack lab?
From: amanchester at gmail.com (Alex Manchester)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:35:27 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Not sure what driver your using but I would recommend staying away from the r8168 realtek driver and utilize the r8169 instead. The r8168 would freeze up every 12 hours or so and the esxi server needed to be rebooted. No problems thus far with the r8169 driver with the server uptime being well over a month. From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of PJ McGarvey Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 9:34 AM To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Malware / hack lab? Yup, that was my issue. I've added the (hopefully) correct Realtek driver to the .iso using info from that site, and just need to test it out. thanks From: amanchester at gmail.com To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:24:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Malware / hack lab? - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 PJ, Depending on what nic your laptop has, check out www.vm-help.com That site was instrumental in me building a vmware ESXi 4.0 whitebox. My ESXi server consists of an AMD quad-4 2.6 ghz processor ($95 at newegg) with 12 gigs of memory and 2 500 gig HD. The motherboard I used was a gigabyte ga-ma785gm-us2h. The only component on the motherboard not compatible with ESXi4.0 was the onboard nic which happened to be a realtek device that isn't normally supported by esxi. Vm-help.com has an excellent script available that allows you to import drivers into the esxi iso image. For what I need this is more than enough machine for my home hack/test lab. Currently, I am running windows 2003,2008,ubuntu server, centos server, and ubuntu desktop simultaneously without any issues. From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of PJ McGarvey Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:07 PM To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Malware / hack lab? 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
________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/210850552/direct/01/> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkuz9dwACgkQbYgPU3padp63rQCgssz9oGxqx5onc2MN7cI2kM3n guYAnj6F6yy7gnsECvRwWqnyRKBeDbwN =aNho - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --Forwarded Message Attachment-- PJ, Depending on what nic your laptop has, check out www.vm-help.com <http://www.vm-help.com/> That site was instrumental in me building a vmware ESXi 4.0 whitebox. My ESXi server consists of an AMD quad-4 2.6 ghz processor ($95 at newegg) with 12 gigs of memory and 2 500 gig HD. The motherboard I used was a gigabyte ga-ma785gm-us2h. The only component on the motherboard not compatible with ESXi4.0 was the onboard nic which happened to be a realtek device that isn't normally supported by esxi. Vm-help.com has an excellent script available that allows you to import drivers into the esxi iso image. For what I need this is more than enough machine for my home hack/test lab. Currently, I am running windows 2003,2008,ubuntu server, centos server, and ubuntu desktop simultaneously without any issues. - --Alex From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of PJ McGarvey Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:07 PM To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Malware / hack lab? 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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