Black Hat Bash

3 SETTING UP A HACKING LAB

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 internet 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 ...