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CNS440 – Lab Assignment Week 2

Complete Lab 1: Performing Reconnaissance and Probing using Common Tools Typically, attackers, malicious users, and/or hackers follow these steps in waging attacks:

1. Reconnaissance / Scanning 2. Vulnerability Analysis (enumeration) 3. Exploitation (the actual attack) 4. Post attack clean-up (anti-forensics)

In Lab 1, you will reconnaissance and scan a local network to identify the local hosts, open ports, and services enabled on the local servers. You will use Wireshark to capture and analyze traffic, Nessus to scan the network; review a sample of collection of data using the NetWitness Investigator, connect to a remote Windows machine and explore two file transfer applications – FileZilla and Tftpd64. You will use PuTTY to connect a Linux machine and run several Cisco commands to display statistics for the network interfaces. You will use Zenmap (the graphical version of the popular reconnaissance tool nmap) to scan the network and create a network topology chart. Section 1 is a hands-on demonstration – a lot of the steps are repeated in the Section 2 where you have to actually experiment as part of your applied learning. You can go over Section 1 to get a grip; keep the focus on Section 2. Upon Completion of Lab 1, you are required to provide the following deliverables in the submission folder in D2L for this lab:

1. One .docx or .pdf document that contains: 1.1. A summary what you find most interesting and/or most challenging in the lab 1.2. All the screenshots as indicated in the Lab Manual for the lab in the online platform

2. All the remaining files, if there any, as indicated in the Lab Manual for the lab in the online platform.