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BackTrack 5 R2 Released, New Kernel, New Tools Hacker are your Ready ? Backtrack 5 R2 finally released with bug fixes, upgrades, and the addition of 42 new tools. With the best custom-built 3.2.6 kernel, the best wireless support available at maximum speed. This release have included Metasploit 4.2.0 Community Edition, version 3.0 of the Social Engineer Toolkit, BeEF 0.4.3.2, and many other tool upgrades. Backtrack also added the following new tools to R2: arduino bluelog bt-audit dirb dnschef dpscan easy-creds extundelete findmyhash golismero goofile hashcat-gui hash-identifier hexorbase horst hotpatch joomscan killerbee libhijack magictree nipper-ng patator pipal pyrit reaver rebind rec-studio redfang se-toolkit sqlsus sslyze sucrack thc-ssl-dos tlssled uniscan vega watobo wcex wol-e xspy Along with this, Backtrack added Wiki about Building a Pyrit Cluster, Creating a John the Ripper Cluster, Enabling PAE in BT5 R2 and Installing VMware P

BackTrack 4  : Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Written as an interactive tutorial, this book covers the core of BackTrack with real-world examples and step-by-step instructions to provide professional guidelines and recommendations to you. The book is designed in a simple and intuitive manner, which allows you to explore the whole BackTrack testing process or study parts of it individually. If you are an IT security professional or network administrator who has a basic knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems including awareness of information security factors, and you want to use BackTrack for penetration testing, then this book is for you.  Download :  https://shrta.com/files/0ZYSOJBV/BackTrack-4-Assuring-Security-by-Penetration-Testing.zip Or https://www.multiupload.com/ZCV9Q3WO4X

Identities now transcend human boundaries. Within each line of code and every API call lies a non-human identity. These entities act as programmatic access keys, enabling authentication and facilitating interactions among systems and services, which are essential for every API call, database query, or storage account access. As we depend on multi-factor authentication and passwords to safeguard human identities, a pressing question arises: How do we guarantee the security and integrity of these non-human counterparts? How do we authenticate, authorize, and regulate access for entities devoid of life but crucial for the functioning of critical systems? Let's break it down. The challenge Imagine a cloud-native application as a bustling metropolis of tiny neighborhoods known as microservices, all neatly packed into containers. These microservices function akin to diligent worker bees, each diligently performing its designated task, be it processing data, verifying credentials, or

Win Free Copies of BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Guide with The Hacker News Fellow hackers would be very pleased to know that to celebrate the release of their new book- BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide , Packt Publishing is giving away 2 copies of the book to The Hacker News readers. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winner. Here is a quick overview of BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide · Learn Wireless Penetration Testing with the most recent version of Backtrack · The first and only book that covers wireless testing with BackTrack · Concepts explained with step-by-step practical sessions and rich illustrations · Written by Vivek Ramachandran ¬ world renowned security research and evangelist, and discoverer of the wireless "Caffe Latte Attack" Read More How To Win Sound like something you might be interested in? All you need to do is head on over to the bo

BackTrack 5 " revolution " will Release on May 10th, 2011 As BackTrack 5 development rolls on full steam ahead, we've been getting numerous questions about the future release. We thought we'd publish a blog post with general information about BT5 for the impatient. The codename of this release will be " revolution ", for a bunch of reasons. BackTrack 5 will be based on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04 LTS) , and will (finally) support both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. We will be officially supporting KDE 4 , Gnome and Fluxbox while providing users streamlined ISO downloads of each Desktop Environment (DE). Tool integration from our repositories will be seamless with all our supported DE's, including the specific DE menu structure. Perhaps most importantly BackTrack 5 "revolution" will be our first release to include full source code in it's repositories. This is a big thing for us, as it officially joins us to the open-source community and clears up any licensing issues which were pres

Book Review : Defense against the Black Arts How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It Ben Rothke  write a review of a   new book on hacking " Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It ". Authors are Jesse Varsalone, Matthew Mcfadden, Michael Schearer and Sean Morrissey. " If there ever was a book that should not be judged by its title, Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It, is that book. Even if one uses the definition in The New Hackers Dictionary of 'a collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area', that really does not describe this book. The truth is that hacking is none of the above. If anything, it is a process that is far from mysterious, but rather aether to describe. With that, the book does a good job of providing the reader with the information ne

BackTrack 5 Release 1 will be available on 10th of August,2011 BackTrack 5 R1 (Release one) will be available for download on the 10th of August,2011. This will complete our first 3 month cycle since the last release. With over 100 bug fixes, numerous package updates and the addition of over 30 new tools and scripts.  BackTrack Crew  will have a pre-release event of BackTrack 5 R1 at the BlackHat / Defcon Conference a few days earlier.

Contest Winners Announcement : Wireless Penetration Testing Guide book We ran a competition for the book " Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing " last week. Today, Vivek Ramachandran, the author of the book and Founder of SecurityTube.net is announcing the winners in the video below. We will be contacting the winners via email soon. Two Best Comments Selected by Author are : Scott Herbert : For me it's the "man-in-the middle" and other cutting edge wireless attacks that make it a book worth getting (even if I don't win). neutronkaos : What interests me most about this book is that it is dedicated to wireless hacking. In an age where almost everybody is rocking a wireless AP, this book could do alot in offense and defense. I have been a Backtrack fan since Backtrack 3 and I have seen several of Mr. Ramachandran's primers on security tube. I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and I am working towards a degree in Network Security. I would love to have this boo

BackTrack Linux, a specialized distribution of penetration testing tools, has long been a favorite of security specialists and IT pros. Security professionals have been relying on the BackTrack security distribution for many years to help them perform their assessments. A couple of weeks ago, futuristic major release of BackTrack was announced as   Kali Linux . Today Backtrack team released few updates to Kali Linux as version 1.0.3 and fixed couple of bugs. " Our first attempts at building an accessible version of Kali failed and after a bit of digging, we found that there were several upstream GNOME Display Manager (GDM3) bugs in Debian, which prevented these accessibility features from functioning with the GDM greeter. Working together with an upstream GNOME developer, we knocked out these bugs and had the fixes implemeted in Kali, and hopefully in future builds of GDM3 in Debian ." Download  new version of Kali Linux ( kali-linux-1.0.3-i386.iso ) wi

A group of hackers attacked and took offline several sites belonging to credit-card sharing groups, security experts and other hacking communities who made mistakes in basic security. Administrators of six Websites woke up Christmas morning to discover their sites had been hacked, according to an online newsletter published by the hackers themselves on Dec. 25. In the second issue of " Owned and Exposed ," the attackers listed carders.cc, ettercap, exploit-db, backtrack, inj3ct0r, and free-hack . While free-hack was taken down for being "lame script kiddies," the other sites had criminal ties or were security experts who "fail so hard at security that we wonder why people really take their training courses," according to the e-zine. Mati Aharoni, the administrator of  exploit-db , a security-oriented site that catalogs known exploits and vulnerabilities, admitted to being compromised in a blog post, but said that it was limited. "Other than our egos,

Great news for Hackers and Backtrack Linux fans! The most awaited penetration testing Linux distribution has been released called ' Kali Linux ' or ' Backrack 6 ', from the creators of BackTrack itself. From last 7 years we have seen five awesome versions of Backtrack Linux. But this time to achieve some higher goals, team decided to leave the 4 years old development architecture and ' Kali Linux ' born today. Kali Linux is based upon Debian Linux, instead of Ubuntu and new streamlined repositories synchronize with the Debian repositories 4 times a day, constantly providing users with the latest package updates and security fixes available. Another great feature introduced is that, because of Debian compliant system, it is now able to Bootstrap a Kali Installation/ISO directly from Kali repositories. This allow any user to easily build their own customization of Kali, as well as perform enterprise network installs from a local or remote repository. The Kali Li

Book : Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing by Vivek Ramachandran This book will provide a highly technical and in-depth treatment of Wi-Fi security. The emphasis will be to provide the readers with a deep understanding of the principles behind various attacks and not just a quick how-to guide on publicly available tools. We will start our journey with the very basics by dissecting WLAN packet headers with Wireshark, then graduate to the next level by cracking WEP, WPA/WPA2 and then move on to real life challenges like orchestrating Man-in-the-Middle attacks, creating Wi-Fi Honeypots and compromise networks running WPA-Enterprise mechanisms such as PEAP and EAP-TTLS. Even though touted as a Beginner's Guide, this book has something for everyone - from the kiddies to the Ninjas. You can purchase the book from: Global: https://www.amazon.com/BackTrack-Wireless-Penetration-Testing-Beginners/dp/1849515581/ India: https://www.packtpub.com/backtrack-5-wireless-penetration-testi

BackTrack 5 ( BT5 ) Coming Soon ! We're behind schedule with BackTrack 5 , but are working hard to make up for lost time. We thought we'd post a few pictures for your enjoyment of the development BT5 ISO we're working on. The screenshots were taken on a 2.6.38-rc5 kernel. The screenshot above is of the KDE 4 theme currently in development. The screenshot above is of the current OSSIM compatible menu structure (WIP). The screenshot above is of working IEEE r8187 drivers on our new kernel. Take into account that many things may and will change in terms of appearance – these are initial mockups are are creating for various environments. Final release in a couple of months at least. News Source : BackTrack

BackTrack 5 Released – Penetration Testing Distribution, Download Now ! Download : https://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ Direct Links from FTP :  https://mirrors.rit.edu/backtrack/

Wow ! Backtrack Official Website's Server Hacked By Team Injector ! Attack on backtrack-linux.org From 1337 Team Injector   .    .--.   .--.   .---.      .           .'|        )      )      /      |             |     --:    --:      /    .-.| .-.  .  .   |        )      )    /    (   |(   ) |  | '---'  `--'   `--'    '      `-'`-`-'`-`--|                                           ;                                        `-'  Since we already tapped into exploit-db and their server lies  in  the same subnet  with  backtrack,  we  decided  to  check  out  their  mad security. Backtrack is run by muts, the same guy who also  administers exploit-db, so no wonder why it was super easy to get a shell...       $ uname -a Linux backtrack-linux.org 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:39:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ id uid=48(apache) gid=494(apache) groups=494(apache) context=unconfined_u:system