The topic is dedicated to the release of the final 3 version of perhaps the best distribution, sharpened for protective and hacking needs. This event happened on June 19th.
BackTrack 3 is a Slackware-based LiveCD designed for security auditing, but in spite of this is not limited to these features. Along with the broadest possibilities for pen-testing (the distribution includes several hundreds of utilities designed for various aspects of security analysis), the assembly includes a standard set of user applications (players, utilities for working with graphics and Internet applications).

In the system menu you will find the following program categories:
- network scanners
- sniffers
- exploits (SecurityFocus, PacketStorm, Metaspl0it Framework, etc.)
- bruteforcers
- proxy toolkit
- Cicso toolkit
- Utility for analyzing wireless interfaces (Bluetooth, RFID, Wi-fi)
- reverse engineering tools
- custom utilities
The distribution kit is available on the website of developers in three versions :
CD Image (695 MB)
USB Version (Extended) (784 MB)
VMware Image (689 MB)
The distribution begins with the integration of the WHAX and
Auditor Security Collection in 2006. In general, it is subject to the rule “one task - one program”.
KDE 3.5.7 is used as the default graphical environment, and
Fluxbox is an alternative.
Interestingly, on the basis of its distribution, the developers conduct training courses for security specialists with issuing a certificate. On the site you can view the demo or download pdf with the description.
The distribution works with CD or flash, and it is also possible to install on a hard disk. Immediately out of the box are supported all the glands of
ASUS eeePC , which makes this assembly a very good replacement for Windows. Let's
make a powerful wardriver-hacker gadget out of
eeePC . We distribute the distribution kit on the USB flash drive, and better on the card, of a suitable format, since it does not stick out of the case. “In the field,” we boot from the card and work, if necessary, immediately sweep traces, we reboot the system from the hard disk, on which we can leave the standard Eldoradian Windu for cover.
To do this, you need an
SD card with a size of 1 GB and the actual distribution. The required version on the website of developers called the
USB-version weighs 783 MB. Download the downloaded image and copy the
bt3 and
boot directories to a card formatted for
fat32 . Then go to
boot/syslinux
and rule
syslinux.cfg
. After line
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw chexpand=256 load=cubez autoexec=xconf;cubez;startx
add row
changes=/dev/sda2
After that, you need to make the map become bootable. In Windows, it is done via the command line by typing the following command:
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N:\boot\syslinux\syslinux.exe -ma -d \boot\syslinux N:
N - eeePC card reader label.
That's all you can work. To boot from the card when you turn on the
eeePC, you need to press
ESC (if this is not done, the Windows will boot), after which the boot selection menu will appear.
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