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02 Oct 09 Security Consultant – Man In The Middle Attacks (MITM)

A Man In The Middle (MITM) attack is a popular network based attack in order to hijack a connection or to sniff traffic. A MITM attack actually covers a variety of different methods. A MITM attack is literally positioning yourself as the attacker between the two communicating parties. Whether you do that via an ARP attack, some type of cryptographic attack, or a physical attack depends on the requirements and scenario. As a security consultant it is important to ensure that the network and it’s communications are as secure as possible against this type of attack. I will cover a simple physical MITM attack, then an ARP attack, and then prevention techniques.
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15 Sep 08 Quick Linux and Windows OpenVPN HOWTO and tutorial, including VPN routing

OpenVPN is a popular Windows/Linux VPN Server/Client pair. I think there’s a separate GUI available for it if you’re so minded. This howto will cover command line usage only.

I’ll provide example configuration based on a Linux server and a Windows client, however the same applies pretty easily if you wanted to mix and match.

On debian, apt-get install openvpn. On any other linux distro, use your own package manager or alternatively download from source and compile.
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