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Administration, Networking entails so many facets. Installing the racks, Managing Gateways, subnetting and security. They go hand in hand.

I came across this website oddly enough as I was searching for a light weight Linux version for a VM installation to practice subnetting and cross machine communication.

Right off the bat I was intrigued.

So here I am with two VMS!

One Kali and mrRobot. Installing them and having them on the same network was a learning curve, and not at all straight forward.

In this vulnerable VM there are 3 keys hidden.

The goal is to find each and each will be harder to find as you progress.

As we see on start up, The environment is simulating a real world visual occurrence. No GUI just the back door.

We need to start by gaining access to the mrRobot VM bz finding the logins.

To achieve this we need to now which network we are on.

We head back to the kali VM, and do a simple IP search.

There are multiple ways to find out your IP.

Next we run a scan of the network by entering our IP with port as a nmap flag.

Here we can see another IP address has been listed.

This is our target.

As I just started to practice, I will tease with this post and come back when I have finished the hunt for the three keys. I will then document a walk through how I proceed. This documentation is just for skills and progress purposes, to add to my resume.

If you want to learn pen testing and Cybersecurity as I do, I strongly recommend you try it yourself.

Consider this part one of my path deeper down the rabbit hole.