[Nottingham] security tools

[tony atkins]

in reply to Danny King's - Nottingham Security Get Together - june 9th post

a neat distro specialising in security - Backtrack (version 3b is the latest i've seen)
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.

http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html

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.



It's evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions -
Whax and Auditor Security Collection. 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.



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 optimized to be used by
security penetration testers. Patches and automation have been added, applied
or developed to provide a neat and ready-to-go environment."

i hope this post is of some use to hackers and defenders alike.

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