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Katana v1.0 Beta - portable multi-boot security suite
Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite designed for all your computer security needs. The idea behind this tool is to bring together all of the best security distributions to run from one USB drive. Katana includes distributions which focus on Penetration Testing, Auditing, Password Cracking, Forensics and Honey Pots.
NST Network Security Toolkit v2.11.0 released
The Network Security Toolkit is a bootable ISO live CD/DVD is based on Fedora 8. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms.
New Version of Samurai Web Testing Framework 0.7 released
The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. In developing this environment, we have based our tool selection on the tools we use in our security practice. We have included the tools used in all four steps of a web pen-test.
New version of OSWA-Assistant out at DEFCON2009
The OSWAâ„¢-Assistant is a self-contained, freely downloadable, wireless-auditing toolkit for both IT-security professionals and End-users alike
BackTrack 4.0 Pre-Final Public release availabe
BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Innovative Penetration Testing live Linux distributions - Whax and Auditor. BackTrack has been dubbed as the best Security Live CD today, and has been rated 1st in its category, and 32nd overall in Insecure.org. Based on SLAX (Slackware), BackTrack provides user modularity. This means the distribution can be easily customised by the user to include personal scripts, additional tools, customised kernels, etc
WeakNet Linux Version 2.0 Final released
WeakNet Linux "Assistant" is a Live Linux Distribution built from Ubuntu 8.04. It started as a side project by Douglas Berdeaux (trevelyn). The plan was to have a live disk to boot the machines with in the WeakNet Laboratories that already had all of the most common security tools, completely customized to suit the laboratory image, pre-installed. This was necessary as the WeakNet Laboratory was founded in a residential house that would suffer from power failures. Sometimes the systems simply needed rebooted after being compromised during a computer security penetration test.
Ophcrack 3.3.0 and ophcrack LiveCD 2.3.0 released
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux
Kon-Boot "root a box" on the fly .. it’s a kind of magic !
Kon-Boot is an prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting). In the current compilation state it allows to log into a linux system as ’root’ user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root.
CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) 0.5 available
CAINE offers a complete forensic environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software modules and to provide a friendly graphical interface.
The main design objectives that CAINE aims to guarantee are the following:
- an interoperable environment that supports the digital investigator during the four phases of the digital investigation
- a user friendly graphical interface
- a semi-automated compilation of the final report
Ramiro Valdes talks about Nova Baire the "Cubano" Linux
Ramiro Valdes a veteran revolutionary from the old days, he fought alongside with Fidel Castro againt the "Moncada Barracks". He also took part of the "Sierra Maestra" guerrila, with Che and Cienfuegos, that led to the final victory.
BackTrack beta 4 released
BT4 is now based on Debian core packages and utilizing the Ubuntu software repositories, BackTrack 4 can be used both as a Live CD, or installed on hard disk as a full distribution. By syncing with the BackTrack repositories, you will regularly get security tool updates soon after they are released.
BackTrack 4 will be soon available
BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Innovative Penetration Testing live Linux distributions - Whax and Auditor. BackTrack has been dubbed as the best Security Live CD today, and has been rated 1st in its category, and 32nd overall in Insecure.org. Based on SLAX (Slackware), BackTrack provides user modularity. This means the distribution can be easily customised by the user to include personal scripts, additional tools, customised kernels, etc
Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution released
The “Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution†is the base Slitaz cooking version plus the latest Aircrack-ng SVN version, wireless drivers patched for injection and other related tools. The custom distribution is especially tuned for the Acer Aspire One netbooks but will work well on virtually all desktops, notebooks and netbooks. It is extremely small (75meg), requires minimal memory and includes a rich set of programs.
NST Network Security Toolkit 1.8.1 released
The Network Security Toolkit is a bootable ISO live CD/DVD is based on Fedora 8. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms.
Helix 2.0 released
Helix is a customized distribution of Ubuntu Linux. Helix is more than
just a bootable live CD. You can still boot into a customized Linux
environment that includes customized linux kernels, excellent hardware
detection and many applications dedicated to Incident Response and
Forensics.
BackTrack 3.0 final released
BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Innovative Penetration Testing live Linux distributions - Whax and Auditor. BackTrack has been dubbed as the best Security Live CD today, and has been rated 1st in its category, and 32nd overall in Insecure.org. Based on SLAX (Slackware), BackTrack provides user modularity. This means the distribution can be easily customised by the user to include personal scripts, additional tools, customised kernels, etc
Russix Wireless Auditing updated
Russix was developed because we wanted a lighter and easier to mod wireless auditing tool.
Russix evolved from an internal UK Military Wireless auditing tool (debian based) which russ had developed while working for them as a penetration tester. He had tried to mod Backtrack with extra drivers and the aircrack-PTW tools but hit too many ’issues’.
Backtrack v3.0 beta in the wild.
BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Innovative Penetration Testing live Linux distributions - Whax and Auditor. BackTrack has been dubbed as the best Security Live CD today, and has been rated 1st in its category, and 32nd overall in Insecure.org. Based on SLAX (Slackware), BackTrack provides user modularity. This means the distribution can be easily customised by the user to include personal scripts, additional tools, customised kernels, etc
Russix The Wireless Auditing Live Linux released
Russix was developed because we wanted a lighter and easier to mod wireless auditing tool.
Russix evolved from an internal UK Military Wireless auditing tool (debian based) which russ had developed while working for them as a penetration tester. He had tried to mod Backtrack with extra drivers and the aircrack-PTW tools but hit too many ’issues’.
OWASP LiveCD (LabRat) version 2.1 announcement.
The OWASP Live CD (LabRat) is a bootable CD akin to knoppix but dedicated to Application Security. It shall serve as a vehicle and distrubition medium for OWASP tools and guides also.