NST Network Security Toolkit v2.11.0 released

This release is based on Fedora 11 using Linux Kernel: "2.6.30.5-43.fc11". The architecture for building an NST distribution has been completely redesigned and engineered. Starting with this release, All system, network and security applications are now included as RPM packages. This allowed us to take advantage of the Fedora Live CD Project for spinning off an "NSTLive" distribution. This project will also help make it easier to develop future releases of NST.

Here are some of the highlights for this release:

• The entire NST distribution is RPM based and an NST system can be maintained using reduntant RPM repositories.
• NST is now extensible. Add new applications with YUM install.
• "NSTLive" allows for read/write rootfsfile system access so that new applications can be installed even though it was booted from a DVD device.
• "NSTLive" can be installed to a USB device for creation of a "NSTLiveUSBDisk". One can then boot the "NSTLiveUSBDisk" from a system capable of booting from USB devices.
• An "NSTLiveUSBDisk" may contain data persistence allowing session information to be maintained across system reboots and/or system moves.
• For systems that lack a DVD device or can not boot from USB devices, the following solution was created for installation of NST to the system hard disk. The "NSTLive" distribution is too big to fit on a CD. An "NSTMinimal" ISO is provided and was designed to fit on CD media. One can boot the "NSTMinimal" ISO, perform a hard disk installation using the NST script: "nstliveinst" and then YUM install the "nst-live" RPM package to completely build out the full NST distribution.
• A new NST script: "nsttraceroute" has been created that Geocodes output from the traceroute utility in KML format for rendering with Google Earth.
• Added 2 network content capture applications: "driftnet" and "tcpxtract". Driftnet is used to capture and display graphic images (i.e., GIF, JPEG and PNG). TCPxTract is used to capture complete documents including PDF or Microsoft Word docs.
• The Multi-Tap Network Packet Capture page has been enhanced with the integration of ngrep and dsniff.
• Many new applications have been added to this distribution release. Previous existing networking and security applications have been updated to their latest revision.