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The Top Security Tools in the Ubuntu Repositories

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 […]

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Technical

Monitor your Ubuntu System with saidar

saidar is a curses-based application to display system statistics. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory,swap, network I/O and disks I/O along with their free space. saidar utilizes libstatgrab library. libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it’s run. It’s written in C and presents a selection […]

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Raw Hard Disk (dd) Images As VMDK Virtual Disks

Written in Java and is designed to be OS independent. raw2vmdk creates an appropriately structured VMDK file that refers to the raw image, which can then be mounted by VMware. It is extremely simple to use and provides the required results in seconds. This is a new tool, so if you have any feedback please do […]

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HowTo: VMware Tools in Ubuntu 10

Again I am working on my server; a virtual machine powered by VMware.  I recalled that I did not have the tools installed; also the virtual server console gave me an additional reminder.  So I decided to install. There are a few things to do before installing.  First we need to make sure our server […]