Network Security Toolkit (NST)

The Network Security Toolkit is the brainchild of Paul Blankenbaker and Ron Henderson and is a Linux distribution that includes a vast collection of best-of-breed open source network security applications useful to the network security professional. The Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a Linux-based Live DVD/USB Flash Drive that provides a set of open source computer security and networking tools to perform routine security and networking diagnostic and monitoring tasks. The distribution can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on servers hosting virtual machines. The majority of tools published in the article "Top 125 security tools" by Insecure.org are available in the toolkit. NST has package management capabilities similar to Fedora and maintains its own repository of additional packages.he new version of NST was released June 5 and according to the NST Web site, this release includes:
 

• A Enterprise class patch management system for NST WUI updates and system file patches and updates.
   
• A new nstvmware script to facilitate the use of NST within a VMware virtual machine.
   
• The inclusion of the VMware Tools and modules to optimize the NST performance within a VMware virtual machine.
   
• Many new enhancements to the NST WUI database management pages for both the MySQL and PostgreSQL database servers.
   
• Replaced the NST WUI network protocol anaylzer capture engine: “tethereal” with the new light-weight “dumpcap” application which is part of the new “ethereal” v0.99.0 protocol analyzer suite.
   
• Many networking and security applications have been updated to their latest version.

Download Link :  https://sourceforge.net/projects/nst/files/latest/download?source=files

Size : 2.8 GB

The screen shots below show a run through while I installed the NST on a virtual box.

AS it completes the installation part below :

 

While you run the installed image for the first time,the interface will ask to create a basic user as below : 

Ready to go.....

Gurugram Police Summer Internship on Cyber Security 2016

A small mention about me made in this video link uploaded to give an overview brief of the Gurugram Police Summer Internship on Cyber Security 2016 conducted under aegis Rakshit Tandon.

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 :-)