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Setting up home lab with Snort and Vyatta - looking for resource recommendations or advice
I'm looking to turn a new desktop (Ubuntu 12.10-64bit) I built into a virtual home lab for testing and experimenting with various security things. The first setup I would like to try running is the ...
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Segmenting Virtual Network Traffic
I have a basic to moderate understanding of VLAN's and their pros and cons as they relate to network segmentation but I'm wondering where to start as one moves into virtualized environments.
From a ...
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Setting up a remote test environment correctly
My setup:
- Main Box (connected to network)
- VM1 : Linux
- VM2 : Windows 7
Both the VMs are running off VM Player and using Bridged: connected directly to the physical network and replicating ...
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Can a TCP connection with a VM be “escaped from” to reach the host? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How secure are virtual machines really? False sense of security?
If a VM (e.g. VirtualBox) on host A opens a TCP connection to a hacker Z, are there any possible ...
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Physical machines not detected from a Backtrack VM
Some time back I asked about using metasploit on a virtual machine here. This question is a kind of 'part 2' of it.
My test bed set up consists of 3 physical machines: A, B and C. Each of them have ...
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Protecting LAN from remote controlled VMs
I am making a virtual network setup for my high school cybersecurity team to practice. I am connecting all the VMs together through a VPN and then people who are practicing will VPN in and ssh/remote ...
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VirtualBox Pen Test Lab Setup
So i'm trying to set up a pen test lab in virtual box on my windows 7 host.
I have 3 guest OS's installed:
1.) BackTrack5
2.) Centos 5 Server/Snort (My Snortbox)
3.) Win XP (Unpatched)
I have 3 ...
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Is vlan considered a security feature? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do people tell me not to use VLANs for security?
This topic came up in a discussion about network infrastructure, where a company had moved from separate physical ...
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Is there a way to identify the host of a malicious VM from across the network?
Scenario:
Someone is attacking your network. However, they're not exactly using their machine to do it - they're using a VM running on their system. The VM's network adapter is configured in ...
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How to detect hosts running in virtual machines with nmap?
I have to determine if a given subnet has virtual hosts.
Are there any ideas about what switches to use?
