De-Ice level 1

The next few posts will cover my first pentest of the de-ice level 1 image. I used vmware to run both the de-ice and Back Track 4 r2 images on my windows 7 box.

I set the vmware virtual machines to use Bridged networking. This allowed me to connect to the internet from my  backtrack image.

At first I had a hard time figuring out how to start networking on BT4. Initially I was setting it manually using the ifconfig eth0 xxxxx but I wanted it automated and the image to pull down an ip from my dhcp server.

To start networking on backtrack simply type /etc/init.d/networking start

Now What?

I have been working as an admin in a data center for over 10 years now. I spent the first half of my career supporting various windows boxes working with IIS, AD and everything in between. For the last few years I have been supporting the Stratus VOS operating system and spending much more time performing in depth packet analysis on transactions for a major bank.

I've known for awhile that I wanted to transition into the security field. Not really knowing where to start I decided Id go for the easier Security + certification. After about a month of studying and lots of practice tests I took my exam. On February 28th I passed with a score of 871/900

Great! Now what