Hey, gang.
One quick note for 2020 and newer students who are joining the class and haven't downloaded the Windows
seven or Windows eight virtual machines.
Microsoft no longer offers those machines free and legal online.
So it can't just go out and grab a copy of a Windows seven or Windows eight virtual machine anymore.
I'm so sorry.
I'm going to leave this section, though, up in the course so that you can see how to hack into a Windows
seven box because there's still plenty of them out there in industry and in homes and businesses and
hospitals and everything.
And we need to learn how to protect them from people who are trying to break into those older systems.
But if you've even got a Windows seven computer sitting in your house, you can actually hack from Caleigh
into that Windows seven box.
You have to be very careful if you ever do this.
I want to show you one quick way, but it needs to come with a really important ethical hacking warning.
Number one, if you're on anybody else's network, not just your own personal home network, if you're
on your school or work or on a public network or on Wi-Fi.
This can get you in trouble.
In fact, it can be illegal in some parts of the world to even connect to the network, much less to
try to send a hack across it.
But I'm going to show you really quickly how you can connect to a Windows seven physical laptop in your
own Wi-Fi environment so that you'd be able to connect to it and actually practice some of the hacking
so that you can see how to secure your Windows seven machine from those types of attacks.
So the easiest way to do that is actually to change your network setting on your Caleigh box to abridged
adapter, abridged adapter.
I'm not going to make that change here.
I'm just telling you how to do it.
And I need to give you warnings to go along with it.
A bridge adapter means that it's going to ask for an address on your public Wi-Fi or on your physical
connection to your network, the same way it would if you just brought in a brand new Caleigh Linux
laptop, a separate physical machine.
And this is very dangerous for us to do as a learning ethical hackers, because real black hat attackers
out there on the Internet will find addresses that are bridged like this that are an unprotected Windows
machine, especially I met a split Nable device.
That one is really dangerous to plug out, but an unprotected Windows virtual machine or even a Caleigh
Linux virtual machine becomes a sitting duck for other attackers who might be sitting on the same network
or sitting out on the Internet.
So be very careful.
You should only do this inside a network that you own and that you are responsible for, like your home
Wi-Fi or a temporary network that you set up with physical cables.
You can bridge the adapter and you can hack from your Kelly virtual machine to another machine on the
same network.
Remember, this can get you in big trouble if you misuse it, though.
So if you're not sure, it's probably best to stay away from the bridge to dafter.
But if you set up that bridge adapter and restart your Caleigh Linux box, you would be able to see
out on your public network in your house.
That's also the way that you would scan for things like digital video recorders, security cameras in
your house, other IP enabled devices, your laptops, tablets, anything that you have around your
house, including smart TV's you would be able to see on that bridged network with Kalli.
But be very careful if you ever decide to use that bridge adapter because it puts your Caleigh machine
out on your network so that it can see things like your doorbell camera, your your smart TV is your
Apple and Amazon devices all throughout your house.
So be very careful with Caleigh Linux setup, unabridged adapter and always switch back to either you're
not in network public nat'l or your private hosts only D-Box net zero.
We don't want you to get in trouble for learning how to use this, but I'm going to leave this Windows
seven demo up for you so that you'll be able to see how you can practice your ethical hacking skills
on Windows seven machines.
You still see these used, especially in big industries.
So it's a really important thing to know how to defend against.