Submitted by Linux, which is a very versatile operating environment, caters for an array of different needs of different users. One such specific usage of Linux is in the area of computer security and penetration testing. Among the digital forensic tools available for Linux, BackTrack is well known as an all-in-one platform that offers security professionals all the tools that they may need to carry out various security related tasks.
Another distro based on like backtrack but based on ubuntu is blackbuntu. Backtrack is very cool. More tools than you’ll know what to do with.
The folks behind Backtrack are pretty amazing. Every time I read about a new infosec tool release, I pop open my Backtrack “aptitude search name” and there it is waiting to be installed.
Yesterday.. Uniscan.. muwahahahahaha
“A Linux Distribution Engineered for Penetration Testing”
Hypothesis 1 : Durex is involved.
Hypothesis 2 : Colt is involved.
*reads the article*
Oh, of course, computer security…
Yes… its terrible. Brings to mind all sorts of terrible ideas. Or wonderful, I guess, depending on your point of view.