Weaknet Linux – Penetration Testing & Forensic Analysis Linux Distribution

WeakNet Linux is designed primarily for penetration testing, forensic analysis and other security tasks. WeakNet Linux IV was built from Ubuntu 9.10 which is a Debian based distro. All references to Ubuntu have been removed as the author completely re-compiled the kernel, removed all Ubuntu specific software which would cause the ISO to bloat, and used a non-Ubuntu-traditional Window Manager, with no DM. To start X11 (Fluxbox) simply type “startx” at the command line as root.
The tools selected are those that the developer feels are used most often in pen-tests. A sample of those included are:

• BRuWRT-FORSSE v2.0
• Easy-SSHd
• Web-Hacking-Portal v2.0
• Perlwd
• Netgh0st v3.0
• YouTube-Thief!
• Netgh0st v2.2
• DomainScan
• ADtrace
• Admin-Tool
• Tartarus v0.1

A full list of applications is here:
WeakNet Linux Applications List
You can also get the guide here:
Official WeakNet Linux WEAKERTHAN System Administration Guide [PDF]
Hardware Requirements
This distro boots to a command line by default, so they are quite minimal. For Fluxbox, the recommended specs are:

• 256 MiB of system memory (RAM)
• 2 GB of disk space
• Graphics card and monitor capable of 800×600 resolution

You can download Weaknet Linux here:
WEAKERTHAN4.1k.ISO

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BackTrack 5 Released – The Most Advanced Linux Security Distribution & LiveCD

We have of course been following BackTrack since the very early days, way back in 2006 when it was just known as BackTrack – A merger between WHAX and Auditor. They’ve come a long way and BackTrack is now a very polished and well rounded security distro, most of the others have dropped off the map leaving BackTrack as the giant in the security LiveCD space.
The last major release was BackTrack Final 4 Released – Linux Security Distribution – back in January 2010.
The BackTrack Dev team has worked furiously in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution” – they released it on May 10th. This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all our previous releases. It’s based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS – Kernel 2.6.38, patched with all relevant wireless injection patches. Fully open source and GPL compliant.

BackTrack 5 – Penetration Testing Distribution from Offensive Security on Vimeo.
The interesting part for me is that the new .ISO downloads offer multiple versions, including a choice between GNOME and KDE desktops and the images include ARM, 32-Bit and 64-Bit versions.
New in Version 5

• Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS;
• Linux kernel 2.6.38 (with wireless injection patches);
• KDE 4.6;
• GNOME 2.6;
• 32-bit and 64-bit support;
• Metasploit 3.7.0;
• Forensics mode (a forensically sound instance);
• Stealth mode (without generating network traffic);
• Initial ARM image of BackTrack (for Android-powered devices);
• All support for Backtrack 4 will end on May 10th, 2011 and BackTrack 4 will not be available for download from our official mirrors from that date onwards.

As for the ARM image, they have had some joy getting BackTrack running on a Motorola Xoom tablet – check it out here.
You can download BackTrack version 5 here:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/

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