Building your attack lab

For consistency, we'll stick with VMware Workstation Pro for our lab environment.

When you start up Workstation, the standard layout is your VM library in the panel on the left and your VMs on the right:

Finding Windows machines for your lab

Okay, you have Kali ready to roll. Now the tricky part: we want to test on Windows machines, but Windows is a proprietary system. Don't even consider downloading anything related to cracking activation keys, either. The legal problem aside, that's a good way for the hacker to become the hacked. Thankfully, Microsoft has our backs in a couple of ways.

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