Run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Solaris, on your Macintosh at the same time as Mac OS X – without rebooting. Designed from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion allows you to run Mac and Windows applications side-by-side – quickly and effortlessly sharing information between the two operating systems’ environments.

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/index.html

Kcpentrix is a Knowledgecave.com Project.

The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators

What’s New in KcPentrix 2.0:

Now release 2.0 is a liveDVD, It features a lot of new or up to date tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities

Kcpentrix is based on SLAX 5, a Slackware live Dvd

The Powerful modularity which Kcpentrix uses, allow us to easily customize our version, and include whichever modules we need.

KCPENTRIX 2.0 is the most inovative and promising KCPENTRIX ever.
It switched to 2.6 kernel line. Zisofs compression was replaced by SquashFS, which provides better compression ratio and higher read speed.

http://kcpentrix.com/

Backtrack2 Homepage: http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html
Written by : Me (pavs)
Inspired By : http://www.neophob.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/89-Crack-local-Windows-passwords-with-Backtrack-v1.x.html

One of several ways to gain Admin passwords in a windows system, if you have physical access to the system is by using a boot live linux distro like Backtrack2. Backtrack is a pen-testing distro so obviously it is loaded with all kinds of software to help you do security tests in both local and remote systems.

Assuming that the local allows you to boot from the CD and the bios is not password protected. Which also has ways to go around but I won’t discuss those in this tutorial.

The first thing to do after booting in to BT (Backtrack), is to open a shell window.

Our first job is to mount the disk/partition where the windows installation that we are trying to crack is located. With this command : # cd /mnt/hda2/WINDOWS/system32/config

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A few months back we wrote about a private investigation firm in the UK that had a separate “computer hacking” division called “Hackers Are Us.” It seemed like the sort of thing that you wouldn’t necessarily want to name a company that clearly was breaking computer fraud laws — but no one ever said criminals were smart. A court has now convicted the two guys who set up the service… and it turns out that both were actually on the police force at the time (though one was on leave for depression). Yes, “Hackers Are Us,” a private investigation firm that would illegally install keyloggers on anyone’s computer was run by two moonlighting cops.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070628/222021.shtml