Malware / hack lab?

[pj_mcgarvey at hotmail.com (PJ McGarvey)]

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?

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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
 
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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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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. 


 


--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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