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Re: Lab OS Choices
From: "Nikhil Wagholikar" <visitnikhil () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:53:05 +0530
Hello Peter, For beginning your Pen-Testing skills & setting up a Lab for the same, I feel you could easily go for setting up following OS in your test Lab: 1. Windows 98 SE 2. Windows 2000 Prof/Server/Adv Server SP0 3. Windows XP SP0 4. RedHat Linux 8 or 9 (with no patches) 5. OpenBSD 3.0 (no patches) 6. Sun Solaris 7 or 8 Besides these, you can install some applications like vsftpd, apache (<1.3 version), sendmail (<8.11 version) etc, since these applications had lots of bugs in them for you to exploit them as practice session. For practicing Pen-Testing you can make use of Metasploit framework (http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/downloads.html). Also automated tools like Nessus will also aid in developing your Pen-Testing skills. Best of Luck !! ---- Nikhil Wagholikar Information Security Analyst On 8/12/07, Peter Manis <manis () digital39 com> wrote:
I am new to the world of pen testing and am working on building a lab. What operating systems and versions do you recommend for a good all around lab. Windows of course is a big one, but do you go back to 98? Being a beginner I would think having all the patches on XP or Vista might make it difficult to learn. I would also think adding a secure OS like openbsd would be a waste of time for a beginner to try to gain access to. All advice is appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by: Cenzic Need to secure your web apps NOW? Cenzic finds more, "real" vulnerabilities fast. Click to try it, buy it or download a solution FREE today! http://www.cenzic.com/downloads ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: Lab OS Choices, (continued)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 12)
- RE: Lab OS Choices Shenk, Jerry A (Aug 13)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Pete Herzog (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Pete Herzog (Aug 16)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Pete Herzog (Aug 16)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 16)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Pete Herzog (Aug 17)
- Re: Lab OS Choices M . B . Jr . (Aug 17)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 12)
- Re: Lab OS Choices M . B . Jr . (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Benjamin Anderson (Aug 15)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Peter Manis (Aug 13)
- Re: Lab OS Choices Jan Heisterkamp (Aug 17)