Maltego: An open source intelligence and cyber forensics application

Research Team August 13, 2018

Maltego is growing in popularity as an analytical tool because of its functionality and open source model. Maltego supports many mission areas, but has especially caught on among cyber analysts. They are supported by the company Paterva.

For an overview of capabilities see the video at this link and embedded below:

From their website:

What is Maltego?

With the continued growth of your organization, the people and hardware deployed to ensure that it remains in working order is essential, yet the threat picture of your “environment” is not always clear or complete. In fact, most often it’s not what we know that is harmful – it’s what we don’t know that causes the most damage. This being stated, how do you develop a clear profile of what the current deployment of your infrastructure resembles? What are the cutting edge tool platforms designed to offer the granularity essential to understand the complexity of your network, both physical and resource based?

Maltego is a unique platform developed to deliver a clear threat picture to the environment that an organization owns and operates. Maltego’s unique advantage is to demonstrate the complexity and severity of single points of failure as well as trust relationships that exist currently within the scope of your infrastructure.

The unique perspective that Maltego offers to both network and resource based entities is the aggregation of information posted all over the internet – whether it’s the current configuration of a router poised on the edge of your network or the current whereabouts of your Vice President on his international visits, Maltego can locate, aggregate and visualize this information.

Maltego offers the user with unprecedented information. Information is leverage. Information is power. Information is Maltego.

What does Maltego do?

Maltego is a program that can be used to determine the relationships and real world links between:
- People
- Groups of people (social networks)
- Companies
- Organizations
- Web sites
- Internet infrastructure such as:
  - Domains
  - DNS names
  - Netblocks
  - IP addresses
- Phrases
- Affiliations
- Documents and files
These entities are linked using open source intelligence.
Maltego is easy and quick to install – it uses Java, so it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Maltego provides you with a graphical interface that makes seeing these relationships instant and accurate – making it possible to see hidden connections.
Using the graphical user interface (GUI) you can see relationships easily – even if they are three or four degrees of separation away.
Maltego is unique because it uses a powerful, flexible framework that makes customizing possible. As such, Maltego can be adapted to your own, unique requirements.

What can Maltego do for me?

Maltego can be used for the information gathering phase of all security related work. It will save you time and will allow you to work more accurately and smarter.
Maltego aids you in your thinking process by visually demonstrating interconnected links between searched items.
Maltego provide you with a much more powerful search, giving you smarter results.
If access to “hidden” information determines your success, Maltego can help you discover it.

For more see http://paterva.com

Github: Social Coding and Distributed Software Management

Research Team January 10, 2018

GitHub helps people build better software, together.

GitHub is a social network for programmers. Git is a distributed software management program created by Linus Torvalds, originally for the Linux Kernel Development. GitHub is a hosted Git repository. Github allows you to take part in collaboration by forking projects, sending and pulling requests, and monitoring development.

Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects.

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over two million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, plus desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster.

Fast-Start DevOps FedRAMP Based Solution

Katie Kennedy March 22, 2016

CMA has announced their launch of a Fast-Start DevOps (Platform)-as-a-Service [DaaS] solution through the CMA NIH CIO-CS Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). This solution integrates Red Hat’s OpenShift open source PaaS with NTT Data’s value-added professional services and BlackMesh’s FedRAMP compliant hosting infrastructure. The result is a DevOps environment that streamlines the rapid development and deployment of new applications while meeting Federal Organization’s security and production requirements.

CMA’s DevOps-as-a-Service Solution [DaaS] addresses the challenge of delivering value and results in days instead of months. The integration services are specifically designed to establish a new DevOps environment; creating a single team responsible for delivering new features meeting the requisite security and stability production environment requirements. The DaaS Solution creates a shared application code base, and enables continuous integration, test-driven techniques and automated deploys. This minimizes problems in application code, infrastructure and configurations. As a result, problems are typically much less complex, change requirements are smaller, and resolution times are faster.

Benefits

Single Unified PaaS Solution to manage Application Development in Linux and .NET environments
Faster time-to-mission with new applications and reduced risk to operation’s services delivery
Competitive alternative to building an ‘in-house’ capability
Fast-Start to modernize legacy applications in a FedRAMP Cloud Fixed Price rapid procurement vehicle with scaled subscription based offerings

Find more information on cmai.com

How to install OpenShift as your private PaaS (schabell.org)
How to install Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) in minutes (javacodegeeks.com)
Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure (techcrunch.com)

Choosing Your First Programming Language

BryanHalfpap November 23, 2013

Many new programmers struggle when it comes to selecting their first language to learn. Which is easiest, the most professionally useful, the most newbie-friendly? Lets find out by showing you a range of options, their strengths and weaknesses, and some information about the most common programming languages in demand today. At the end, we’ll make some recommendations and you’ll understand a bit more about why they were chosen.

The Task At Hand:

Every job requires the right kind of tool, and each programming language can be thought of as a separate tool. Just like some tools are good for hammering nails, driving screws, and leveling screws, some programming languages are innately more suitable than others for tasks like designing a website, interpreting text, or reacting to user input.

Lets go through a few common use cases:

Language	Typical Usage
Java	Thick-client applications, large web apps, web applets, cross-platform
C# / .Net	Windows applications
Objective C	iPhone/Mac Apps
PHP	Web Application back-ends
Javascript	User interaction through web browser
Python	Science apps, computer admin tools, automating repetitive tasks quickly, can run on Linux and Windows (like java)
Ruby	Robust & Large web applications
Perl	Working with lots of text
Bash	Automating Linux Activities (like starting/stopping processes)
C/C++	Medium to Large projects, Embedded development, applications where speed is a factor

All of these languages can perform the same (or nearly the same) tasks as all the others, but the amount of effort can vary widely from language to language. You’ll see that in some of the examples in the next section…

Detail-Oriented

All programming languages rely on structure to perform their tasks. This structure is known as Syntax. The syntax for English and Japanese are night and day, but the syntax for French and Spanish are very similar (if you remember your language classes from high school!). The same applies to computer languages. Lets look at some examples:

Java	C#
public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(“Hello, World”); } }	public class Hello1 { public static void Main() { System.Console.WriteLine(“Hello, World!”); } }

Perl

Python

#!/usr/bin/perl
print “Hello World.\n”;

#!/usr/bin/python

print “Hello World\n”

You can see that Perl and Python are nearly as identical to each other as Java and C# are!

This makes sense because many languages are modeled after one another. By choosing a language that is syntactically similar to many other languages, you can practically learn multiple languages at once!

Hey, by the way, if you looked closely at those examples, you’ll notice some are simple, others are complex, and some require semicolons at the ends of lines while others don’t. If you’re just getting started in programming, sometimes it’s best to choose languages without many syntactical (or logical) rules because it allows the language to “Get out of its own way”. If you’ve tried one language and really struggled with it, try a simpler one!

Setup:

If you’ve seen your use case mentioned in the table above, or have decided on a language already, you’ll need a way to run it. Generally, scripting languages require something called an Interpreter whereas C and C++ require compilers. Almost all of the languages mentioned in this article (with the exception of C#) are easiest to set up with any flavor of Linux — it really doesn’t matter which kind. C# is a special case because you need Visual Studio and Windows to use that.

PHP really requires a lot of work to set up in tandem with Apache/IIS, so we’ll save it for your own Googling or another article. The languages and links below are the easiest to set up.

Language	Windows	Ubuntu Linux Console Command
Ruby	http://rubyinstaller.org/	apt-get install ruby
Python 2.7	http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads	apt-get install python
C#/.Net	http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2012-express	N/A
Java	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/	apt-get install openjdk
C++	http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2012-express	apt-get install build-essential gcc

You can see that things on Linux can be quite easy to set up, but of course requires some amount of familiarity with the operating system. If you’re not scared to jump into Linux feet-first and take some time to Google your issues, I highly recommend that you use Linux. Either way, you’ll be using the command line in order to debug your programs anyways.

Popularity Contest:

TIOBE.com maintains a who’s-who popularity list for all the most popular computer programming languages. It’s created by crawling various search engines and scraping the results. You can view all of their charts and graphs at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

These are the top ten:

1	1	*	C	16.975%	-2.32%	A
2	2	*	Java	16.154%	-0.11%	A
3	4	*	C++	8.664%	-0.48%	A
4	3	*	Objective-C	8.561%	-1.21%	A
5	6	*	PHP	6.430%	+0.82%	A
6	5	*	C#	5.564%	-1.03%	A
7	7	*	(Visual) Basic	4.837%	-0.69%	A
8	8	*	Python	3.169%	-0.69%	A
9	11	*	JavaScript	2.015%	+0.69%	A
10	14	*	Transact-SQL	1.997%	+1.12%	A

So All This Information Is Nice But…

You need to make a decision, right. Well, lets make a couple more charts and then get you started:

1. I’m a Windows User and I want to Get Into Programming

If you’re making something simple and want some experience that will translate into real-world usefulness, start with C#/.Net — setup is easy, the Visual Studio really helps you out, and there are plenty of resources to help you, including technet and MSDN directly from Microsoft!

Those languages aren’t as easy as Python, but Python isn’t going to help you out as much if you’re looking to make a simple graphical application. That being said, if you just need a command-line utility, take a close look at Python.

2. I’m familiar with Linux and I want to make/automate something

Python. Simple, fast, incredibly powerful, easy to use and experience with it translates fairly well into other languages. Absolutely a must for beginners willing to get their feet wet with Linux.

3. I want to build a website

Javascript and PHP — These languages require the most amount of know-how to set up (you have to install a webserver and make sure it’s configured to run PHP) but aren’t too complicated once you get that ball rolling. PHP isn’t going to get you as much experience working with modern programming languages unless you use it in an Object-Oriented style though.

Javascript is very useful to know and is easy to learn. You’ll get a lot of use out of it, even without PHP. In fact, you can make and run Javascript programs without any setup, right in your browser.

Just give me a Language!

Python. It’s easy, already used by thousands, very extendable, doesn’t require as much attention to detail, and allows beginners to learn logic basics before going into object-oriented programming.

Mind Maps: "Nonlinear Systems benefit from Nonlinear Documentation"

DaveWalker April 4, 2012

Editor’s Note: This CTOvision.com post was written by DaveWalker, a highly regarded security professional and inventor in the UK with a focus on design and implementation of multilevel and cross-domain IT security (“MLS”)-bg.

I was first introduced to mind mapping a few years ago, when some colleagues I was having email discussions with about security in Grid environments (and very early Cloud environments, although they weren’t called Clouds at the time) started sending me diagrams by email rather than narrative text, involving little constellations of thought bubbles arranged in linked hierarchies.

Back then, I didn’t really get it, and carried on replying in narrative form. However, in the last year or so, I’ve started to see the value in this form of recording ideas, especially once I hit on the idea in the title of this posting. In practice, I’m now finding that when an idea arrives fully-formed, there are so many implications for associated systems and ideas that trying to record the idea (especially if it’s the small hours of the morning) in narrative form just doesn’t work, especially if I want to make notes quickly; there are some classes of idea where trying to impose a linear narrative form on their description is either artificial or actively detracts from the clarity of the explanation, by making it more difficult to see where some things are parallelisable, or where multiple dependencies exist between elements, what they are. This, in my view, makes a well-constructed mind map far more information-dense than a piece of narrative – not only are the elements of an idea included, but also how they fit together, and it all goes on one sheet or screen.

I’ve recorded and developed most of my Cloud thinking in mind map form (and will be posting some threat model thinking, shortly); I originally started with FreeMind, which works nicely on desktop systems, but my favourite app these days is iThoughts HD for iPad – not only is my iPad more convenient to keep to hand for when an idea shows up, but I find the direct touch-based interface really lends itself to mind map editing in ways that a trackpad and pointer don’t match.

The definitive written work on mind mapping is “The Mind Map Book” by Tony Buzan (BBC / Pearson, 2010), the guy who came up with mind mapping in the first place; this showed me that, while the fundamental “vocabulary” of mind maps in terms of a central idea with branches off it tracking lines of thinking is common to all mind maps, other apparent “mind map vocabulary” items such as branch colour, shape and clockwise position relative to the central idea or a preceding node on a branch, are more like Twitter hashtags in that there is no common dictionary of them and their meaning can differ between authors. Still, it appears they are typically done this way to appeal to the latent synaesthesia in the adult mind; while we might not remember an idea “cold”, we might get to it based on remembering its colour or relative location, for example.

While the book suggests a number of uses for mind maps – and the iMindMap tool from ThinkBuzan, Tony’s own company, bristles with features for making mind maps the core of presentations, project plans and other necessary things – there are some areas where I think they could be employed further, especially in documentation. While it can be argued that the mind map came first, a mind map can also be viewed as an exploded Hypercard stack.

The “MyFry” app version of the second volume of Stephen Fry‘s autobiography is driven by a user interface which is effectively a version of a mind map, by topic. Extending this, I can see conventional mind maps being usefully employed instead of Contents pages, with each branch element carrying a page number as well as its idea. This could work not only for detailed software documentation (where a map could show dependencies between functions, for example), but also for any highly-nonlinear system such as – and we’re back to the start of my journey, here – a Cloud…

Hadoop Quickstart: Build a Cluster In The Cloud In 20 Minutes Or Less

BryanHalfpap January 10, 2012

Editor’s note: The tips Bryan Halfpap provides below really work. I stood up a working Hadoop Cluster in under 20 minutes, from cold iron to production ready, using just his guidance and a Rackspace account. bg

I’ve been working with Apache Hadoop in my lab, spending much of that with CDH3 (the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop). As part of my examination of the best way to move from test/evaluation/prototyping to production systems I’ve been examining cloud-based cluster capabilities. CTO Bob Gourley and I recently set up clusters in Amazon EC2 and Rackspace and were both impressed with the ability to get powerful systems up and running fast for very low cost.

With this post I’ll share some of the tips and techniques used to get these clusters up and running. These tips flow from the guide provided by Cloudera (see link at end of this post) but include a few other important tips that will help get you operational fast. I also provide more explanatory context to help you understand more what is going on as you execute these instructions. My only assumption here is that you have an understanding of the basic Linux command-line environment and have access to systems (perhaps in your environment or, like we did, at Amazon or Rackspace). Please note that this particular guide is written for 64-bit Redhat-flavored systems (CentOS/Fedora/ect…), and will need to be tailored for other OSs. Also note that we did things this way because we want to learn and to teach and thought many of you would like to see what is going on here as well. But there are actually better/faster ways than this. You can download configuration management systems that let you plan, start, manage and operate clusters very smartly using great GUIs and then manage them over the lifecycle of a production environment (see for example, the free Cloudera Manager). We will provide more on tools like that in the future. But now we want to show you how to stand up your environment using CDH3 by use of the command line. This is the fun way. We will walk you through the enterprise way in the near term.

Our first step flows from an understanding that Hadoop utilizes a lot of Java, and for that, you want to be sure that you are using the Sun/Oracle version. This ensures that any problems you come across aren’t in the Java implementation itself.

Bring up the Linux system you wish to install CDH/Hadoop on and run the commands below inside of the command prompt. This will return a list of installed packages called “OpenJDK“. OpenJDK is an open-source implementation of Java that we will need to remove.

rpm -qa | grep openjdk

If that returns a list of openjdk packages, you need to remove them before heading further. This command below will remove anything in yum which starts with “java”, and will remove openJDK from the system. We want to do this because the Sun/Oracle Java is much more stable and will ensure that all required features are present in Java.

yum remove java*

Once the packages have been removed, run the following commands in order to download and install the Sun/Oracle Java environs.

For 64-bit versions:

wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u2-b13/jdk-7u2-linux-x64.rpm

Now we download and install the Java Runtime Environment.

For 64-bit versions:

wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u2-b13/jre-7u2-linux-x64.rpm

Now that we have the packages downloaded, it is time to install them. Use the Redhat package manager (rpm) to install these files with the commands below.

rpm -i jre-7u2-linux-x64.rpm
rpm -i jdk-7u2-linux-x64.rpm

At this point we are ready to start downloading the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH). Redhat-flavor linux users of later distributions (Fedora 12+, latest versions of CentOS) can safely use the Redhat/CentOS 6 repositories from cloudera to install hadoop. If you are running later versions of those flavors, use the CentOS 5 repo.

For Latest Versions: http://archive.cloudera.com/redhat/6/x86_64/cdh/cloudera-cdh3.repo

For Legacy Versions: http://archive.cloudera.com/redhat/cdh/cloudera-cdh3.repo

You may notice that this is a repo file — it’ll add a repository to your package manager and help you keep your CDH software up to date. Simply add it to the yum repository like this (as root):

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://archive.cloudera.com/redhat/6/x86_64/cdh/cloudera-cdh3.repo

Then update your package information from the repo with yum.

yum update

We use the repositories because it’s easier to keep CDH up-to-date with the package manager rather than building from source every time there is an update. Maintenance and setup are easier, and it’s easier to reinstall should we need to do that. Adding the repositories also allows you to install additional packages with yum with a few simple commands, rather than having to search for, then download and install any additional software add-ons for your Hadoop ecosystem.

Now you should be ready for the next step — downloading and installing Cloudera’s Hadoop. Do this with yum by using the following commands:

yum install hadoop-0.20

This will install the base of Hadoop and allow you to install the other packages that Hadoop requires to operate — namely the jobtracker, tasktracker, namenode, and datanode. All of those trackers and nodes are required in order to operate a Hadoop cluster. Choose which ones this machine will run, or install all of them at once if you are running in “pseudo-distributed mode”. Pseudo-distributed mode treats one computer as if it is an entire cluster, and is great for testing out prototype jobs or performing development on.

to install the packages, simply follow this syntax:

yum install hadoop-0.20-[NAME OF THE PACKAGE]

If you want to run hadoop just on one node, install all of the packages, then use the following configuration for Hadoop in the /etc/hadoop-0.20/conf folder: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/quickstart.html#PseudoDistributed

Below is a simple bash script for pseudo-distributed installs of CDH. This script will start the Hadoop services for you:

#!/bin/bash
service hadoop-0.20-datanode start
service hadoop-0.20-jobtracker start
service hadoop-0.20-namenode start
service hadoop-0.20-tasktracker start

Copy and paste that code into a file named “start-hadoop”, save it, and mark the file executable with the chmod command:

chmod +x start-hadoop

Then run it to see if everything starts up fine with:

./start-hadoop

If you did everything well, then you should be able to perform the following actions:

hadoop fs -copyFromLocal [filename] [filename in hdfs]
hadoop fs -cat [filename in hdfs]

Where the names in brackets are the names of a file you wish to import and then display in HDFS (Hadoop distributed file system). If you weren’t able to get that started fine, then you may need to repeat one of the steps or make sure you installed all the components you needed.

If you have any questions or if you’ve found an error in this Tutorial, please let me know on Twitter (@Crypt0s).

A full documentation including steps to install on Debian-based systems can be found at Cloudera’s website.

Note: Keep checking CTOvision.com for more Hadoop updates on software for Hadoop like Whirr. Whirr is another great capability, enabling the fast standup of cloud clusters by use of a simple properties file you update with your cloud provider info. We also have posts coming on the use of Cloudera’s Manager. Also, as previously mentioned, if you would like fast tips to standing up cloud-based servers to start these Hadoop Clusters on, see our Quickstart guides to Amazon and Rackspace servers.

Quickstart Guide: Stand up your cloud-based servers with Rackspace

Bob Gourley January 6, 2012

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Linux in Minutes : Running Your Windows Applications in Linux

BryanHalfpap September 21, 2010

Every time someone mentions switching to Linux at home or using it at work, I eventually get asked “But what about my <insert windows application here>. Will it work on Linux too?”

Short answer: No.
Long Answer: Depends.

A fair amount of the software that users are familiar with — like Microsoft Office — have counterparts that are Open-Source. Microsoft Office’s free doppelganger is Open Office, a program formerly maintained by Sun (now owned by Oracle). But of course there are some aesthetic changes and a bit of a learning curve.

So some of our software is available in the form of other free applications, but what if you have stubborn users, absolutely need a feature, or have a custom-built application that runs on Windows like restaurant or Point of Sale software?

Well, unfortunately Windows and Linux executables are not compatible. Why? Because some programs in Windows make use of Microsoft software built into the Windows kernel and it’s accompanying proprietary software libraries (DLL files). Imagine if a Windows program tried to access the registry on Linux — it certainly wouldn’t work. Now imagine the program is trying to use Windows graphics to draw a prompt box on a Linux OS; The code isn’t there and it just won’t work.

This is where Wine comes in.

Wine is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator. The acronym is recursive in typical UNIX tongue-in-cheek geek humour. Despite the playful name, Wine is a seriously robust tool and is one of the best ways to get Windows applications working inside of any Linux distribution.

This is because the Wine project has a collection of black-box engineered Windows libraries and code that Windows executables hook into. These DLL’s contain the code that Windows programs rely on when they want to do something as simple as display a new message box or make use of the hard drive, system hardware, or talk to the network. Some libraries are also used for drawing graphics for games (namely DirectX) and more.

Wine provides an environment that allows the Windows executables to get the code they need to perform their functions on Linux. It doesn’t emulate Windows as much as it translates Windows API and library calls into Linux API and library calls. In this way, Wine acts more like middleware than an emulation or virtualization environment. In fact, Wine describes their software model as a compatibility layer.

So Wine makes Windows applications compatible with Linux?

Yes, but this is way more complicated than it sounds (and it sounds complicated), especially when you consider how robust some Windows applications are, and the roundabout methods that the Wine development team has to use to avoid legal repercussions from Microsoft. This complexity means that Windows executables experience different levels of functionality as the various functions that Windows provides applications are re-created in Wine. This varying level of functionality has facilitated the creation a Wine application database, http://appdb.winehq.org/.

AppDB crowdsources application testing inside of Wine for various Wine versions and Linux flavors (the most popular being Ubuntu or Debian, which I highly recommend you use if you are trying to run Windows applications over Linux). Applications in the Wine database are rated and assigned a value based on how usable the program is. Applications that work flawlessly are “Platinum”, whereas applications that crash or flat-out don’t work are “Garbage”. A lot of popular programs are rated platinum or gold, including World of Warcraft (Platinum), most of the Windows Office 2007 suite (gold except for Outlook 2007), and many Valve games on the Steam platform (TF2, Half-life). These applications are frequently quoted to me as reasons why users will not switch from Windows even if they dislike it or find it difficult to afford, but with Wine running on Linux, it shouldn’t be much of a switch at all!

So how do we get the more difficult Wine applications to work? I need application X, Y, or Z and it’s got long instructions about how to configure Wine.

Well this is where the tricky part comes in. Wine has the ability to be tuned for applications for improved performance. I recommend looking on AppDB and attempting to find instructions on forums for running whatever particular application it is you wish to run if it doesn’t run out of the box. Don’t give up on it just because it didn’t start up the first time. There are also a few important tools that can help you get applications running.

Winetools:

http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
Winetools can help you get more than 90 Windows applications working within Wine by helping you to download and install the necessary additional software that some applications require but are not always advertised. It’s the first step in getting many harder-to-install applications to work inside of the Wine environment because it downloads Windows fonts and allows easier customization. Read what Wine has to say about it here.

Plays On Linux:

Plays on Linux allows users another Wine environment to install software in — more specifically game software. It allows easier tweaking based around getting games like team fortress 2 or fallout 2 to install correctly and work better. I’d recommend it for any gamers looking to make the switch to Linux because of the scripts that automate game installs for many popular games.

I’m on board, but what about support?

Wine has several companies that use its code-base and provide support to users:

http://www.transgaming.com/ (Has more game copy protection support than mainstream Wine but is developed separately)
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux/
http://www.bordeauxgroup.com/

Bordeaux supports Microsoft Office applications, Adobe applications, Internet Explorer and “Consumer Video Games” out of the box. It’s worth checking out if you can’t afford the money for a Windows License and still need to run a Windows executable.

Oh, and Wine runs on Mac’s too. If you use your Mac for gaming, it could be a helpful tool for getting those older games with no Mac releases that aren’t already on Steam.

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