From: Rory Savage (rsavage77@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2006 - 22:06:31 EDT
Zach,
In addition to those tools, are you familiar with Nessus? It might be
helpful in your penetration testing since it keeps an up-to-date database of
exploits.
-Rory Savage
Boca Raton Comp Sci & Research
2400 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, 33431
>From: Shreyas Zare <shreyasonline@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: shreyas@technitium.com
>To: wymerzp@sbu.edu, pen-test@securityfocus.com
>Subject: Re: VMware and pen-testing
>Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:38:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi,
>
>Do following steps to configure your virtual VMWare
>network:
>
>1. Set a private IP address to the virtual network
>adapter which will be found at control pannel> network
>connections. Set IP like 192.168.1.1 subnet mask
>255.255.255.0 .. No need for a gateway.
>
>2. Now boot the OS in VMWare, set the network adapter
>in the virtual machine OS with IP address in same
>range say, 192.168.1.2 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 ...
>You can give gateway 192.168.1.1 if you plan to access
>other networks on host OS (Note: to do this stuff you
>may need to use NAT and Routing and Remote Access
>running on host OS (XP), especially while accessing
>internet on host OS)
>
>3. Now ping from virtual machine to host machine IP
>address 192.168.1.1. You must get a echo reply.
>
>Now you can use Nmap to scan vitual OS from host Os or
>vice-versa.
>
>Bye,
>
>Shreyas Zare
>
>--- wymerzp@sbu.edu wrote:
>
> > Hello, I am a student of computer science trying to
> > learn more about the art of pen-testing. I have
> > several tools at my disposal: nmap, enum, Metsploit
> > Framework, Cain and Abel, ect. I obviously cannot
> > test these against commercial networks (I could but
> > I certainly don't want to go to jail) I have used
> > nmap though due to it's unobtrusive nature. I
> > therefore downloaded the evaluation version of
> > VMware. I set up virtual machines with a host only
> > connection; furthermore, I see the virtual machines
> > network connections in network connections. I am
> > running windows XP. I cannot figure out, probably
> > due to my inexperience at networking, how to connect
> > to the machnies once I have them up and running so I
> > can run nmap scans against them (among other
> > things). Any help would be appreciated, including
> > links or whatever knowledge you guys could pass on.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Zach
> >
> >
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