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HITB2014AMS – Day 1 – State of the ART: Exploring the New Android KitKat Runtime

Good afternoon and welcome back to Hack In the Box.  I can’t think of anything better than a talk on ART, the new Android KitKat Runtime, to digest lunch 🙂

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Honeynet Workshop 2011

March 21th I was in Paris for the annual Honeynet Workshop. For the first time this year there was a conference day accessible to the general public. Moreover, I didn't have to pay the registration fee since I successfully completed one of the Honeynet Forensics challenges. The day was split in 4 sessions and had talks covering the Honeynet projects, malware, and ethical and legal considerations of tracking botnets and eventual take-downs. Read more
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Spread the word ! nmap 5 released

Insecure.org has released a new major version of the free, open source “nmap” security scanner. (Don’t just call nmap a port scanner – Thanks to many improvements over the last years, nmap has become an excellent security scanner).

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Creating empty VMWare .vmdk files

Having empty vmdk files allows you to – create virtual machines even with vmware player – create additional disks and add them to existing vmware installations

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How to backup VMWare ESX virtual machines

Today, I will try to explain 2 techniques that will allow you to backup your vmdk files (virtual machines) on a VMWare ESX 3.0.x server. My lab runs on 3.0.2, but this will work on 3.0.1 (and maybe earlier Read more

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How to restore a Windows 2003 DC using ASR and VMWare

The following procedure should work for any type of hardware, but I’ve used VMWare (so this procedure is also valid if you want to convert a physical Domain Controller to VMWare). Additionally, the procedure works for Windows 2003 server, Read more

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AD 2003 DC Restore Technique using VMWare (without having to grant local DC/Domain Admin rights)

In certain distributed AD scenario’s, Domain Admins group membership or local DC admin privileges are restricted to certain people only. This is a good thing to do, but it requires you to think about certain issues before they happen.

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Moving VMWare server/workstation .vmdk to ESX Server

While finishing the setup of my VMWare ESX infrastructure, I needed to move a couple of virtual machines from a VMWare Server (running on Windows XP) to my ESX server. Migrating most of those machines was relatively easy : Read more

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