Hacking Tutorial Beginner to advanced - Setting up a penetration testing lab

To setup a penetration testing lab, First you need the following things.....



  1. Virtual Box - virtualbox.org


    2. *Go to downloads

    For more details about the virtual box installation visit here.

    Download and extract the file...

    >Now open virtual box and click on 'New'

    >Name: Metasploitable 2
      Type: Linux
      Version: Debian 64 bit

    >Click Create


    >Click Create(you can select more file size but 8 GB is good)

    >Now go to settings
    select Storage
    select Metasploitable 2.vdi
    Click on the Red rounded button in the bellow pic

    >select 'choose a virtual hard disk file'
    then select our downloaded file
    >Then Open it

    >In System-Processor-Enable PAE/NX
    >OK
    >then start your virtual machine

    >Metasploitable VM is ready
    >Login with msfadmin as username and password

    Now your Pen testing lab is ready...
    Check any pen testing tool with with Metasploitable without breaking the law. Stay legal

    All my next tutorials will be done with this tool.
    Stay tuned




    by