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in reply to Danny King's - Nottingham Security Get Together - june 9th post<br><br>a neat distro specialising in security - Backtrack (version 3b is the latest i've seen)<br>i first came across this distro via Slashdot - in which it cracked a Vista machine with physical access - even has a video on site showing you how little was involved.<br><br>http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html<br><br>blurb from the site "
BackTrack is the most Top rated linux live distribution focused on
penetration testing.
With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started
directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.
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It's evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions -
<b>Whax</b> and <b>Auditor Security Collection</b>. By joining forces
and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive
popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution
by insecure.org.
Security professionals as well as new comers are using BackTrack as
their favorite toolset all over the globe.
<br><br>
BackTrack has a long history and was based on many different linux
distributions until it is now based on a Slackware linux distribution
and the corresponding live-CD scripts by Tomas M. (www.slax.org) .
Every package, kernel configuration and script is <b>optimized to be used by
security penetration testers</b>. Patches and automation have been added, applied
or developed to provide a neat and ready-to-go environment."<br><br>i hope this post is of some use to hackers and defenders alike.<br><br /><hr />Messenger's gone Mobile! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000001ukm/direct/01/' target='_new'>Get it now!</a></body>
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