Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
As the world of virtualization moves forward, organisations are faced with compelling reasons to virtualize: factors like server consolidation, high energy bills, faster hardware, ease of use and step back and quick snapshot technology make the virtual computing realm become more attractive.
In some organisations virtualization has already become a large ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
A remote vulnerability exists in the QuickTime player for Windows XP and Vista (latest service packs). Other versions are believed to be affected as well. For now, no details will be released regarding the method of exploitation.
Because we are an information security think tank and because we encounter some very ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Earlier I wrote about my proposed Tactical Network Security Monitoring Platform. Today I finally sat down and installed the operating systems I need on this system to create a portable tactical forensics and investigation platform. I did not want to use my main work laptop for this sort of work ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Seeing as I've just spent the morning trying to get all this up and running I thought I'd create an entry about how to get Backtrack running in VirtualBox.
For those who haven't heard of it, VirtualBox is an open source equivalent to vmware workstation. It does full snapshoting (unlike vmware ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Stop cleaning your glasses - you read that title right. There is a way now to surf the web with absolute, unbreakable safety. It is very simple to do.
A few months ago, VMware Inc. decided to release a free virtual machine player. What this program does is pretend to be ...
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