VMware Lab: Creating a Domain

In this VMware lab, I’ll be creating a Domain for my server, as well as connecting my Client VM to that Domain. This is the foundation for my VMware labs. The content I will be covering in this lab is: Naming a Server/Client Creating a Domain IP configuration The first thing I always do on […]

Lab 10 Attacks Against DHCP and DNS

Exercise 1: Setting Up the Scenario In this lab, we need to edit our current DHCP scope and change the lease time, as well as the Subnet delay. After making those changes we also need to move the ‘wwwroot’ folder to the ‘inetpub’ folder. Exercise 2: Preparing the Attack In this part, we need to […]

Lab 9 Telnet and FTP

Exercise 1: Configuring Telnet and FTP This lab is to demonstrate how unsecured Telnet and FTP are. We start this by installing the FTP role on the server and the Telnet Server Feature. Now we need to start the Telnet Server. The next step is to copy c:\gtslabs\ftproot to c:\inetpub Next is to change authentication methods […]

NetApp Self-Paced Lab One

For Networking we need to complete the self-paced lab about clustered storage, the thing was that the lab was timed and blogging about something while it’s timed is a bit too much to ask,m but I’ll still discuss how I found it. So the whole point of this assignment was to get a feel for building Storage Virtual […]

Lab 8 Configuring a VPN

Exercise 1: Installing a Network Adapter In this exercise, we need to install a second network adapter to the Server VM to support RRAS. The Lab shows it being done in Hyper V and since we are using VSphere it’s done differently but I’ll follow it as much as possible. The lab wanted an ‘External […]

Lab 7 Password Sniffing

Exercise One: Keyloggers In this exercise, we are installing a keylogger on the Client VM, which we need to log in as the domain administrator first. Once logged in we can install Actual spy and do the following steps; Check the box to allow the program to start on startup Check all boxes under hiding Check […]

Lab 6 Configuring Certificate Services

Exercise One In this lab, we will be working within the Server VM. I need to install Active Directory Certificate Services through the roles and features tab. Now we need to configure AD CS. Exercise Two This lab we will examine the AD CS role we installed. First, we need to go to tools and open AS CS and […]

Lab 5 Steganography

Exercise One In this lab, we learn how to hide information within the Windows File System. We start by logging into the Client and running silenteye-0.4.1-win32 installer. Once installed we need to make a note of the gtslearning.jpg image creation and last modified date. Once those dates are noted we need to open WinMD5 and drag the image […]

Lab 4 Baseline Security Analyzer

This lab is based on understanding the Baseline Security Analyzer. We start off with the Client and Server VM’s, which we need to install the MBSASetup within the client, and then start the program.   Once installed we need to scan multiple computers, and enter the domain name ‘classroom’ We now have a report on the two […]