Module 1.3: Cyberchallenge #1: networks

Email your answers to bill@hpa.edu

You may use the notes on the weblog, as well as the web to complete your evil task...

1. Using the tool of your choice, find the IP address of several of your classmates' computers
2. Ping these and record your results
3. With permission, make their computer say your name
4. Lookup a company on the internet and record their IP address
5. Ping this company
6. Do a trace route on this company
7. When is your DHCP lease due to expire?
8. Find the linkrate to another computer in the room
9. Run a port scan on the computer at 10.14.88.83
10. Is this running a web server?
11. What other services (names, not ports) is it running?
12. Who was the last person to login to your partner's computer?
13. ssh into the computer at 10.14.88.83  (pi, papaya77)
14. create a folder on the desktop with your name, no spaces
15. navigate into that folder (see the weblog for notes on this)
16. create a document with a secret message
17. challenge your classmates to find the message
18. repeat the process, only this time, name your document starting with a period: .secret
19. look on the desktop of the 83 machine, look inside the folder, can you find the document? why?
20. On your own computer, using terminal, create a folder on your desktop, with both a visible and an invisible file in it.
21. to view a file in terminal, use the command less, e.g. less filename
22. using the commands in the weblog, find the hidden herobrine file I've hidden in the machine called pi-delta (you will have to find the IP address)
23. login to pi-delta and cd to /var/www/html
24. open a browser and go to 10.14.88.83
25. look at the text on the web page
26. using sudo nano, change the words "Apache2 Debian Default Page" into something more interesting
27. ctrl-o and ctrl-x to save your edits
28. look at the web page now. congratulations, you have successfully hacked a website

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