Cyber Security Summer Internship 2016 Gurgaon Police : 10 Jun 2016

Today got an opportunity to speak at Cyber Security Summer Internship 2016 Gurgaon Police being conducted under the aegis of Shri Rakshit Tandon.Below is the presentation that I presented before the attending audience on Hardware Trojans.

   Hardware Trojans : Summer Internship Gurgaon Police- 10 Jun 2016 by Anupam Tiwari

Few Pics from the Internship meet are shared below :

Qubes OS Installation in VMWARE Workstation player

1.   Qubes OS is a security-focused desktop operating system that aims to provide security through isolation.Virtualization is performed by Xen, and user environments can be based on Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Microsoft Windows, among other operating systems.In my earlier post here at http://anupriti.blogspot.in/2016/05/qubes-os-installation-issue-with.html,wherein I had shown the installation issue I faced in Virtual Box,here I put forth (a pretty longish installation though about 2 hours plus) a series of steps along with screenshots as I was able to install the Qubes OS in VMWARE Workstation player.

The only irritant thing is the installation time...it takes about 150 minutes to complete the entire installation.Rest any queries are welcome....

Qubes OS Installation issue with Virtual Box

1.    I have a habit of running most of the Operating systems in Virtual Environment(mostly Virtual Box) that I keep experimenting with.Till date I have had no issues running anyone of them inside Virtual Box including Ubuntu,Fedora ,Mint,BackBox , BackTrack ,Metasploit , Windows , Pentoo ,Knoppix ,Chromium OS, Arch Linux , Open Suse, Red Hat etc....in fact the list goes on.But whilst exploring the QUBES OS today...I found the Virtual Box unable to run it...and always getting the following screens :

2.   Qubes is a security-oriented operating system (OS) and an extract from the installation advise is shown below : 

Extract produced below :

Note: We don’t recommend installing Qubes in a virtual machine! It will likely not work. Please don’t send emails asking about it. You can, however, install it on an external USB hard drive and run from it, at least for testing.

3.  But further to my surprise,I found via Google searches that this OS works fine with VMWare workstation player.And after I tried it,I found it works perfectly fine as I show it in my next post.I though couldn't find a resolve or any kind of solution to run it fine on the Virtual Box but then till the time VMware workstation performs the task,I am ok :-)

VMware Workstation Player installation @UBUNTU 16.04 LTS

 1.    VMware Workstation Player is a virtualization software package for x64 computers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, supplied free of charge by VMware, Inc. VMware Player can run existing virtual appliances and create its own virtual machines and uses the same virtualization core as VMware Workstation, a similar program with more features, but not free of charge. VMware Player is available for personal non-commercial use, or for distribution or other use by written agreement. VMware, Inc. does not formally support Player, but there is an active community website for discussing and resolving issues, and a knowledge base.

2.   This post brings out few steps with screenshots and source details of download for the VMWare workstation version for Linux. The bundle package can be downloaded at https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0

3.   The file I downloaded from the above link is 

VMware-Player-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle

4.   Few steps to install this file further involves going to the terminal and executing the following commands :

chmod a+x VMware-Player-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle

the next step

sudo ./VMware-Player-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle

 this is followed with the following gui shots :

Ready to roll..........