Daily Cup of Tech has a great article on using the security tool Cain & Abel to recover passwords over the network. Why is this useful you may ask? Well, every time my mother asks me for help with her email and I ask “what is your password”, she responds with “I don’t know. They set that up when it was installed”. Using this tool, I can sniff her network and figure out what password was used when “they” set it up. It can also be useful for doing a security audit on your network to make sure you aren’t sending critical passwords in the clear. Be careful though, Cain & Abel has the ability to be used for unscrupulous purposes, and some Anti-Virus/Spyware/Malware programs may bark at you if they find it on your system (as well as some IT and Network admins).

Recovering Your Lost Passwords

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As part of our initiative to release a virtual version of the NetSensory Appliance, we realized that a lot of people out there don’t have experience with VMware. While trying to find resources that we could direct people to for how to get started with VMware proved nearly impossible (aside from the official VMware documentation, but who reads the docs anyway?), so we wrote our own getting started guide. This is a generic document on how to install and launch VMware, and includes lots of tasty screenshots. This article was written up by the ever popular Lifehacker.com on Feb 28th 2007.

How-to install VMware Server 1.0.1 on Windows XP SP2

[Editor’s Note, May 15, 2007] Check back here on www.itsnotthenetwork.com over the next few weeks, because I’ll be writing another couple of articles sharing some of the things I’ve learned about VMware and posting them, including the often requested “VMware Networking Howto”, where I will try to make some sense of the often extremely confusing choices to be made when dealing with Virtual Machines.

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