Encryption plays is a key role in our daily lives; whether we are checking our emails on the go, browsing a favorite website, or simply sending a message to a friend, data encryption provides us with an acceptable level of privacy from prying eyes. Quite often, IT professionals don't always keep track of their compliance levels in maintaining encryption techniques to secure data on a system. This leads to a malicious user or hacker compromising a vulnerable system to retrieve confidential data due to poor encryption practices.
In this exercise, we will attempt to discover one of the most common vulnerabilities in encryption on a target. Once found, we will then exploit the weak encryption vulnerability.
To get started, perform the following steps:
- Download and set up the bee-box virtual machine. The bee-box file can be found...