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tturner

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Re: Which OS are you running currently?

« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2011, 02:23:52 PM »

You always want to isolate your pentest box from other systems. Thats customer data that you are likely contractually obligated to protect. I get very angry when I see how pentesters we hire are so careless with my orgs data. It's irresponsible and in my opinion, criminally negligent.

I'd speak more to this topic but it's a bit of a threadjack and I've submitted a talk to an upcoming hacker conference that I don't want to spoil. Wink


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Re: Which OS are you running currently?

« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2011, 05:00:53 PM »

Sorry if there was some confusion but this is just my pen-test lab which I use to learn from. I have no customers or a professional pen-test job so it's only my own info.


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Re: Which OS are you running currently?

« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2011, 08:08:33 PM »

p0et,

On my second laptop I had backtrack 5 as my sole OS but within the last month, I made SL my OS and only use backtrack through VMware. Thats only because I'm practicing for RHCSA. I say its completely up to you if you want to dual-boot it or not. When I was using backtrack on a daily basis, I had it dual-booted.


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Re: Which OS are you running currently?

« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2011, 10:33:49 PM »

So I think I'll stick with dual booting Win7 & Linux Mint on my main home PC (use it for everyday stuff and infosec research). I have some good ideas now of what to put on my 2nd desktop for pen-testing labs (learning ethical hacking) but what do you guys suggest? It's a P4 dual core 3.2Ghz with 250GB hdd and 3.2GB ram. I'm thinking I should probably dual boot this with Win7 and a linux distro so I can use either Windows or Linux to attack from and have VM's inside each of those OS's. (possibly have backtrack & win7 for dual boot or just have Win7 in a VM then just dual boot Ubuntu with BT5 or even don't dual boot and just have either Ubuntu OR BT5 as the one main OS)

So many options. :-)