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Company / developer
Mati Aharoni, Max Moser, Remote-Exploit, jayme
OS family
Linux (SLAX)
Working state
Current
Source model
Free and Open Source Software
Latest stable release
3.0 / 19 June 2008; 201 days ago
Latest unstable release
3 Beta / 14 December 2007; 389 days ago
Kernel type
Monolithic kernel
Default user interface
KDE, Fluxbox
License
Various
Website
www.remote-exploit.org
BackTrack is a GNU/Linux distribution distributed as a Live CD which resulted from the merger of WHAX and the Auditor Security Collection.[1] It takes advantage of SLAX's modular design and structure to enable the user to include customizable scripts, additional tools and configurable kernels in personalized distributions. The BackTrack project was created by Mati Aharoni and Max Moser and is a collaborative effort involving the community.
BackTrack 2 was released on March 6, 2007 and includes over 300 security tools.[2] A beta version of BackTrack 3 was released on December 14, 2007, but it was announced that its main focus was to support more and newer hardware as well as provide more flexibility and modularity.
BackTrack 3 was released on June 19, 2008. New additions include SAINT and Maltego. Nessus was not included in this release, and the developers decided not to upgrade from kernel version 2.6.21.5.[3]
Contents
1 History 1.1 Auditor Security Collection
2 Current State
3 Features
4 Releases
5 Criticism
6 Training
7 References
8 See also
9 External links //
History
The BackTrack distribution originated from numerous Linux counterparts. WHAX, a name derived from White hat and SLAX, was a distribution designed for security tasks. WHAX emerged from Whoppix, a Knoppix-based security distro. When Whoppix reached version 3.0 it was renamed as WHAX, to reflect the change of parent distribution from Knoppix to SLAX. Customized by Mati Aharoni, an Israeli security consultant, WHAX made its central focus on penetration testing. WHAX made it possible to test and verify the security of a network from many computers located in various places. Auditor Security Collection
The Auditor logo
Max Moser's Auditor Security Collection - "The Swiss Army Knife for security assessments" - was focused as well on Linux-based penetration tests.[4] The overlap with Auditor and WHAX in purpose and tools collection partly led to the merger. Auditor featured well-laid-out menus for its collection of over 300 tools for troubleshooting, network and systems-fortifying. Its user-friendliness resulted in enhanced usability for penetration testing which led to the formulation of the BackTrack security testing distribution.
The Auditor security collection was a Live CD based on Knoppix.
Auditor Security Collection desktop Current State
After coming into a stable development procedure during the last releases and consolidating feedbacks and addition, BackTrack producers restructured the development focal point from stability to functionality by restructuring the build and maintenance processes. With the current versions of BackTrack, the majority of applications are constructed as individual modules which improve the update performance with releases and fixes.
On 2007-07-15 BackTrack 3 was announced to be in the development process [5] and released on 2008-06-19. Features
BackTrack focuses its central idea on the needs of computer penetration testers. The inclusion of Live CD and Live USB functionality enables any user to just insert their respective data medium and boot up BackTrack. Direct hard disk installations (2.7 GB uncompressed) can also be completed within the Live CD (700 MB compressed) environment through the basic graphical installation wizard with no restar

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