The folks at Microsoft made available a developer preview edition of Windows 8, which permits us to get a good hands on the new windows to operating system. After some testing and attempts to get this to install on VMware products such as ESX and VMware Workstation 7 / Player I was able to test […]
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To update a run-time image that is protected by EWF RAM mode Use EWF Manager to disable the overlay by typing the following command:ewfmgr c: -disable Restart the system. Install the application or update. Wait for the install to complete and restart the computer if required. Re-enable the EWF overlay by using the following command:ewfmgr […]
A new Internet worm has been reported that spreads via Microsoft’s Remote Desk Protocol (RDP). This worm scans an infected host’s subnet for other hosts running RDP and attempts access to them using a pre-configured set of user names (including “administrator”) and passwords. According to Microsoft, this worm can be remotely controlled and updated, such […]
Tech Support Mode (TSM) provides a command-line interface that can be used by the administrator to troubleshoot and correct abnormal conditions on VMware ESXi hosts. TSM can be accessed in two ways: Logging in directly on the console of the ESXi server Logging in remotely via SSH Both of these methods can be disabled, and […]
Sniffers: dsniff Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities This package contains several tools to listen to and create network traffic: * arpspoof – Send out unrequested (and possibly forged) arp replies. * dnsspoof – forge replies to arbitrary DNS address / pointer queries on the Local Area Network. * dsniff – password […]
By now many I have come accustom to installing programs using the apt-get method in Ubuntu, but there comes a time where we need to remember those other commands to install things. For example when attempting to install software packaged in .bundle file format. It all started when I downloaded VMware player and went to […]