Professional Penetration Testing

To conduct a pentest, you need at least two systems””an attack platform and the target system. To make setting up a lab easier, we will be using Virtual Images of preconfigured (Linux) systems as our targets (Figure 1.2). The target images will consist primarily of LiveCDs from the De-ICE series of exploitable systems, which were created at the beginning of 2007 by myself (the author of this book) and presented to the hacker community at DefCon 15. Since then, additional exploitable LiveCDs were created by other groups, which we will include as well in our lab, as needed.