Security's Labyrinth

With the rise of various technologies, security is needed more than ever. But before understanding today's complex security measures, let's take a look on how all of these evolved over time, and what challenges were faced. Cloud Security Earlier, organisations and companies used their own servers to run their application software. These servers were located and managed in-house.This setup was expensive and led to increased capital cost of computer hardware and labor cost of administrators. At the same time, it was observed that most in-house systems were idle, leading to a lot of wasted resources. These problems gave rise to Virtualization. It reduced the number of servers and helped save money. Now, there was no need to purchase different hardware configuration systems for different applications; instead a pool of general hardware resources was used to run virtualized applications. Virtualization further led to renting out of infrastructure by third parties (IaaS). It is t...

In this article, I will explain how to move inside a network using a meterpreter obtained in another network. [Pivoting] Machines used: Attacker: Kali Linux (2020.1) Victim 1: Windows 7 x64 SP1 Victim 2: Windows 10 Pro Build 10240 x64 Adding a virtual adapter in VMWare Workstation: Firstly, we need to create an internal network for Windows 7 and Windows 10 by adding a virtual adapter. Step 1: Open Virtual Network Editor Step 2: Click on Change Settings Step 3: Click on Add Network, change the subnet IP to 10.10.10.0 and apply the settings. Note: You can give any custom subnet IP here. Setting up the lab: The next step is to update the network adapter(s) in all 3 virtual machines. The updated adapter settings are: Kali Linux: NAT Windows 7: NAT, vmnet2 (Host only) Windows 10: vmnet2 (Host only) In my system, the IP’s are as follows: Kali Linux: 192.168.30.128 Windows 7: 192.168.30.136, 10.10.10.128 Windows 10: 10.10.10.129 Note that Kali and Windows...