The highest rated and praised Linux operating system for security professionals and hackers

Backtrack 5 R3 Windows 10.,. ' A close look at the single most important item for anyone wishing to learn penetration testing/hacking (i.e. In one of my recent articles, I showed you how to install BackTrack as a dual boot system on a Windows computer. Read PDF Backtrack 5 Guide Basic Security Testing with Kali Linux 2 Kali Linux 2 (2016) is an Ethical Hacking platform that allows good guys to use the same tools and techniques that a hacker would use, so they can find security issues before the bad. BackTrack 5 R1 is an update release to the original BackTrack 5 operating system released on May 10th, 2011, and it brings over 100 bugfixes, over 30 new scripts and 70 tools updated, and lots of. The BackTrack 5 R3 includes almost every Hacking Tools. It comes preinstalled with Digital Forensics tools. The User Interface is very simple and easy. It is an open-source, for anyone, Worldwide. The software also comes with Pre Installed Drivers. Identify Live Hosts. Information Gathering and Analysis.

BackTrack was an open source Linux distribution that could be used by security professionals for penetration testing and digital forensics tasks in a native computing environment dedicated to hacking. It has been officially discontinued in February 2014.

Distributed as 32-bit/64-bit Live DVDs with GNOME and KDE

Thanks to Softpedia, users can still download BackTrack Linux and install it on their personal computers or laptops. It is distributed as four Live DVD ISO images, supporting the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, as well as both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures.

Boot options

The Live DVDs feature a custom boot menu that allows users to start the live environment in stealth mode (without network connection), forensics mode (without drive or swap mount), text mode, safe mode, as well as to boot the existing OS or test the RAM for errrors.

When booting the Live DVD, users will be dropped to a shell prompt, where they need to execute the startx command in order to enter the live session, which provides users with a traditional desktop environment (KDE or GNOME).

The world's best penetration testing tools

The distribution has been heavily customized to be used in real-life penetration testing tasks. It includes a vast collection of security oriented applications and provides users with two popular desktop environments. As a matter of fact, it is the only Linux distribution in the world that contains so many security applications. It is geared towards experts and novice security users alike.

The security-oriented applications have been arranged into 12 categories: information gathering, vulnerability assessment, exploitation tools, privilege escalation, maintaining access, reverse engineering, RFID tools, stress testing, forensics, reporting tools, services, and miscellaneous.

Downloaded over 1 million times on Softpedia

Whether you use this system to learn new hacking techniques, exploit servers, hack wireless networks, or perform a web app assessment, BackTrack is the number one solution for all of your security needs. Since March 2013, BackTrack has been rebuilt around the Debian GNU/Linux operating system and it is now released as Kali Linux. On August 30, 2014, BackTrack was the first Linux distribution to reach one million downloads on Softpedia!

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New in BackTrack 5 R2:

After months of development, bug fixes, upgrades, and the addition of 42 new tools, we are happy to announce the full release of BackTrack 5 R2 available for download now. Running our custom-built 3.2.6 kernel with the best wireless support available, this is our fastest and best release of BackTrack yet. In the past few weeks, we have had a flood of submissions to our BackTrack Redmine Tracker with submissions for many new tools and dozens of packages that needed to be updated and this has helped to make this one of the strongest releases we’ve ever had.
Once again, our good friends over at Paterva have created a special BackTrack edition of Maltego 3.1.0 for your data mining pleasure and we have also included their recently-released CaseFile tool to help you organize and collate data from numerous sources. If you have never used these tools before, you really need to…they will change the way your interact with data and conduct reconnaissance.

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Introduction

Managing BackTrack R2 via SSH is usually all you need. However, sometimes I like to manage BackTrack from Windows using X11 so that I can also have access to the desktop. In this blog, I’ll show you how to do the same using SSH, PuTTY, and Xming. This should be useful to penetration testers and BackTrack enthusiasts. The steps that will be covered are listed below:

Setup SSH in BackTrack
Disable the firewall (optional)
Enable X11 Forwarding
Restart SSH
Export DISPLAY
Install and Configure Xming
Install and Configure PuTTY
SSH to BackTrack
Install and run gnome-session
Access desktop in Xming

A Little Background on X11

Without going into any detail, X11 is a X Windows system that allows users to access GUI applications remotely. However, users should be aware that the terms client and server are inverted in the context of X11. Meaning that the system that makes the request to run an application on the remote server is referred to as the X11 Server, and the system providing access to the application is referred to as the client. So, server=client and client=server.

Setup SSH in BackTrack

Now that we have the X11 history out of the way, let’s get SSH enabled in BackTrack. SSH is installed by default, so only a few commands are needed to get things rolling. First, generate the keys that will be used by the server:

sshd-generate

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Next, start the ssh daemon. By default is will start up on port 22:

/etc/init.d/ssh start

Finally, configure ssh to start and boot time:

update-rc.d ssh defaults

For those who don’t know. You can get the IP address of the system via the ifconfig. For the sake of this blog let’s assume that the BackTrack system’s IP is 192.168.1.100. At this point I recommend verifing that you can actually connect to your BackTrack system via SSH. In use PuTTY in Windows or the stock ssh client.

Disable the Firewall

This section is NOT a requirement. However, some people like to go nuts and just drop their entire firewall if they are planning to get crazy. So if you feel your in the group, you can disable the default fire wall in Backtrack with the following IPTABLES commands:

IPTABLES -F
IPTABLES -X
IPTABLES -t nat -F
IPTABLES -t nat -X
IPTABLES -t mangle -F
IPTABLES -t mangle -X
IPTABLES -P INPUT ACCEPT
IPTABLES -P FORWARD ACCEPT
IPTABLES -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

Enable X11 Forwarding

Enable the following settings in the “/etc/ssh/ssh_config” file to enabled X11 forwarding.

ForwardAgent yes
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes

Restart SSH

Restart your SSH server or start it if it wasn’t running. Below is one option for restarting the service.

/etc/init.d/ssh restart

However, the Unbuntu community at large seems to prefer restarting services with the command below:

Service ssh –full-restart

Export DISPLAY

Set the “DISPLAY” variable to the IP of your X11 server (Windows system). The basic syntax is below.

export DISPLAY=

If your Windows system is 192.168.1.101,