BackTrack Linux

BackTrack Linux

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.

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Because Metasploit is one of the key tools for most analysts it is tightly integrated into BackTrack and both projects collaborate together to always provide an on-the-edge implementation of Metasploit within the BackTrack CD-Rom images or the upcoming remote-exploit.org distributed and maintained virtualization images (like VMWare images appliances).

Currently BackTrack consists of more than 300 different up-to-date tools which are logically structured according to the work flow of security professionals. This structure allows even newcomers to find the related tools to a certain task to be accomplished. New technologies and testing techniques are merged into BackTrack as soon as possible to keep it up-to-date.

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This live-CD Linux distribution truly has every tool you could imagine using for a security audit. There are 24 information gathering tools; 21 network mapping tools; 65 vulnerability identification tools; 11 penetration tools; 48 privilege escalation tools; 15 backdoors; a log cleaner; 29 wireless analysis tools; 7 VoIP analysis tools; 13 digital forensics tools; 7 reverse engineering tools; and the Snort IDS. Quite a collection!

The live-CD boots to a KDE desktop, with support for various ethernet NICs and wireless cards both natively and through ndiswrapper. The website even includes screenshots.

The current version is 141207 (12/14/2007 - Beta 3). MD5 checksums are available on the download page.
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