Creating Our Lab Environment (or our own 1
special little place to hack). 2
What we're going to do here is, we're 3
going to actually download a program 4
called VirtualBox. We're going to go to 5
virtualbox.org, and we're going to download 6
the latest version. VirtualBox is a 7
virtualization software. It allows us to 8
put multiple pieces of operating systems 9
on a single piece of physical hardware. 10
Now, some people ask why do we use 11
virtual machines. Well, one of the reasons 12
for me to use virtual machines in this 13
environment, is because we want to make 14
sure that we're not doing any attacking 15
or cracking on a live network. The way 16
laws work in the United States, hacking 17
is considered illegal, as well as many 18
other countries. Now, if you own the 19
network, or you have permission of the 20
network owner in writing, you can then 21
hack those networks legally. In this case, 22
since we're building our own network, 23
we'll have the legal rights to hack that 24
network, and therefore we don't have the 25
police knocking at our door. So for my 26
penetration testing lab, I actually use a 27
Macbook Pro. This allows me to have 28
something that's portable that I can 29
carry with me when I go teach classes, 30
but it also is enough power to do what 31
I'm going to want to do. It allowed me to 32
run four or five or six different 33
operating systems at once. We can run 34
things like Windows, Linux, UNIX, or even 35
Mac OSX on top of these virtual machines. 36
First thing we do is we're gonna go to 37
virtualbox.org. At virtualbox.org, we're going 38
to download the latest version. As of 39
today, that's version 5.1. Once you click 40
on the download button, you'll see where 41
the operating systems are listed. If you 42
have Windows, click on that. I have Mac, so 43
I'm going to choose OSX, and if you've 44
Linux click on that one. Now, at some 45
points during this video, and other 46
videos in this course, you're going to 47
notice that time sort of fast forwards 48
on you. The reason is I don't want you 49
have to sit there and wait while my 50
system downloads, or my system processes 51
something, so I'm going to compress those 52
by going two or three or four times as 53
fast. If you find that your system hasn't 54
caught up to that, that's fine. Just hit 55
pause, wait for your system to catch up, 56
and then you can restart the video at 57
that point. Once you've downloaded the 58
installer, you're going to go ahead and 59
run through the installation program. 60
It's as simple as hitting continue and 61
install as we work our way through it. 62
Now, at the end of the installation, it's 63
asking if you wanna remove the 64
installation file, which is fine because 65
you don't need the Installer anymore, 66
you've already installed it to your 67
system. 68
So, now that we have VirtualBox 69
installed as our virtual sandbox for our 70
hacking efforts, we need to move on to 71
the installation of an attack platform. 72
In our case, that's going to be Kali 73
Linux.