netinfinity release Ubuntu Pentest Edition … “Ubuntu pentest edition is primarily designed as a complete system (everyday usage – office, internet etc..) and can be used in pentesting purposes, which is a big advantage because you do not need to have a dual boot or use a virtual machine to run the system for pentest.” [...]

If you need to update VMware tools on all Windows (Server 2003, XP) VMs on one or more VMware ESX server, you need to do that with command <i>vmware-vmupgrade.exe</i>. From my point of view this command is insecure, so I deiced to create a <i>bash</i> script for this job using GREAT utility <b>vimsh</b>. Script looks [...]

You forget your root password and get locked out of your own box. What do you do? Typically, you would reboot into single user mode and change the password there. When booting into single user mode you will not be prompted for the root password. This is something every attacker knows and prays on once [...]