Re: VMware and pen-testing

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

M Bealby wrote:
> Virtualisation is an excellent method of creating lab environments for
> practicing penetration testing.  You mentioned you downloaded the
> evaluation version of VMware.  Now this might be what you are
> referring to, but VMware Server 1.0 [1] was released for free 
> recently and
> is great for this kind of testing.
<snip>

I do this for testing malware.  I create a small LAN on my dual Opteron
Server running SuSE with 4gb RAM and Windoze guests, start the malware on
one and watch it infect the other guests.  Sometimes I run a *NIX and Novell
guest, but they have never been infected.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA 
Information Security Officer 
Information Systems Security
infosysec.net

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