The utilization of VMs to understand the principles of ethical hacking has become common within cybersecurity

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The utilization of VMs to understand the principles of ethical hacking has become common within cybersecurity. In this assignment, we will walk through the basics of vulnerability analysis and show the ease with which a vulnerability can be exploited to gain root access of a system.

View the “Lab 3 Your First Hack Part 2 Lab” video within the “Video Playlist: Penetration Testing and Risk Management,”located in the topic Resources.

Utilizing your Kioptrix 1 machine from last week, gain root access of the device.

Begin by adding a user to the system with full root access.

There are various ways to hack into the provided machine, all of which result in the same outcome of gaining root access. Provide a brief summary of 250-500 words on the mitigation techniques you would employ to secure the system from privilege escalation. (Assume upgrading and replacement is not an option.)

The director of IT has asked you to present your mitigation strategy at a conference. As usual, your meeting was hastilyincreased in scope to include a training class for the C-suite with regard to common attacks used against the company in the last30 days. Create a video presentation outlining how to gain access to the system. Define the taxonomy of attacks by providing adefinition, summary, and categorization of the following attack families:

* Buffer overflow

* Privilege escalation

* Rootkits

* Trojans

* Backdoors

* Viruses

* Return-oriented programming

* Common social engineering attacks