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A company that develops cloud and virtualization software and services. Mostly known for their desktop softwares Workstation, Player and Fusion, their server software ESXi and the cloud IaaS product vCloud.

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How to securely delete full vm

We have a Windows 7 virtual machine on VMware Workstation 11. The VM is now encrypted (using Workstation) but wasn’t always. The VM has confidential information on it and as we no longer need it, we would like to securely delete the full VM. What is…
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Detect a Virtual Machine on my Wifi?

Is there a way to detect whether a machine connected to my wifi is a physical machine or a virtual machine?
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EMET disable DEP on IE for specific site

I'm a new user of EMET. I wanted to know if there is anyway to avoid DEP on IE for a specific site. I want to do this because I use VMware remote server and when I start a remote console, EMET starts blocking iexplore (because of DEP attack) and the…
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Nmap write output only when all scanned ports are open

Can anyone tell me how, or if it possible to get nmap to write output to a file if ALL of the ports defined in the scan are open? Such as in a boolean & statement - i.e. 636 & 902 & 5989 For example, I am trying to find all VMware-related ports in…
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Restricting VMware View Copy/Paste Functionality

Does anybody know if it's possible to restrict VMware View copy/paste functionality depending on the source of the client? It seems VDIs can have GPOs set to configure copy/paste functionality, but we have some users accessing VDIs from internal…
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Does connecting a virtual machine to a guest wifi connection protect the host machine from potential malware if it is connected to the main network?

I have a windows 10 host machine that is connected to my LAN with other devices. It runs a VMware Ubuntu virtual machine that is connected to the guest wifi and has shared folders between vm and host disabled. I thought that this would protect the…
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installed windows 2003 in VMware cant get internet to work

I have installed Windows 2003 server in VMWare and cannot seem to get the internet to work. It says it is connected to the internet in the box in the icon bar and when I run ipconfig it returns with an ip subnet and default gateway however when I…
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Is VirtualBox safe and is it possible its spying on the user?

I'm looking to install a virtual machine and since Hyper-V is not available for my Windows 10 production version I'm forced to decide between VirtualBox and VMWare. VMWare looks much more modern and new while Virtual Box has a very old and 'sketchy'…
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Secure a virtual machine during a lab exercise

I recently started the Offensive Security AWAE course. On their connectivity guide page, they warn about the hazards of connecting to their labs: you will be exposing your computers' VPN IP to other students taking the course with you. Due to the…
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How should I install Kali Linux on my Windows 10?

I'm using Windows 10. I found several ways to install Kali Linux on Win10: Install it on VMWare Install it on Docker Install it on Linux subsystem (WSL) I might need to access some files in my physical computer so I'd prefer the Linux subsystem.…
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How to configure a VM to protect all my hardware fingerprint from guest OS and softwares?

This question was originally Does Firefox in VM have a common enough fingerprint so I don't need tor browser? in Tor community. I want to know about what a web browser's fingerprint like in a VM, if VM runs a common OS and have default system…
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Why is Zone Alarm Blocking VMWare Virtual Network Editor?

I have version 15 of VMWare running on my Windows 10 computer. When I open the Virtual Network Editor and try to add a bridged connection, I get an error saying: Cannot change network to bridged: There are no un-bridged host network adapters I know…
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Is VM escape has the same severity as me getting in a car crash?

I'm exploring the threats for VDIs on VMware, based on the article it seems the risk for VM escape has low severity as described here:http://vmescape.com/index.html Did we forget the discussion of "Risk Management"? Is there a risk? Of course.…
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Nmap only detect virtual hosts and not physical hosts (maybe segmented network)

When my network settings is set to NAT and interface is eth0, this is the output of a simple nmap scan root@pc:~# nmap 192.168.0.0/24 Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-03-04 18:47 EST Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.1 Host is up…
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Can hackers compromise a VM to the point that they compromise your host OS?

Recently I was reading up on various security strategies and one that has been around for a while but is starting to gain traction now is working within a VM on your desired OS. If that VM ever gets compromised you can simply revert the system back…
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