3

S E T T I N G U P A H A C K I N G L A B

In this chapter, you’ll set up a lab environment containing

hacking tools and an intentionally vulnerable target.

You’ll use this lab in chapter exercises, but you can also

turn to it whenever you need to write, stage, and test a

bash script before running it against real targets.

The locally deployed target and its assets mimic the production environment

of a mock IT hosting company called ACME Infinity Servers, which has its own

fake employees, customers, and data. This fabricated internet hosting company and

its customers will provide you with a diverse range of intentionally vulnerable

applications, user accounts, and infrastructure that you can practice attacking in

future chapters.

The lab will be fully contained in a Kali virtual machine. This virtual machine

will require the following minimum specifications: at least 4GB of RAM, at least

40GB of storage, and an internet connection.

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