BackTrack 3.0 Final released
We have slaved for weeks and months, together with the
help of many remote-exploit'ers to bring you this fine
release. As usual, this version overshadows the previous ones
with extra cool things.
Saint
SAINT has provided BackTrack users with a functional version of SAINT,
pending a free request for an IP range license through the SAINT
website, valid for 1 year.
Maltego
The guys over at Paterva have created a special version of Maltego
v2.0 with a community license especially for BackTrack users. We would
like to thank Paterva for co-operating with us and allowing us to
feature this amazing tool in BackTrack.
Nessus
Tenable would not allow for redistribution of Nessus.
Kernel
2.6.21.5. Yes, yes, stop whining....We had serious deliberations
concerning the BT3 kernel. We decided not to upgrade to a newer kernel
as wireless injection patches were not fully tested and verified. We
did not want to jeopardize the awesome wireless capabilities of BT3
for the sake of sexiness or slightly increased hardware
compatibilities. All relevant security patches have been
applied.
Tools
As usual, updated, sharpened, SVN'ed and armed to the teeth. This
release we have some special features such as spoonwep, fastrack and
other cool additions.
Availability
We will be releasing an internal "IRC pre release" version of BT3F for
final testing and identification of possible blunders...and shortly
after that we will have a full blown release.
Final Requests
We request the community to not mirror or torrent this release, or
otherwise distribute it online without our knowledge. We are trying to
gather statistics about bt3 downloads. If you would like to mirror BT3
then please:
1) Think again! Traffic generated by BT3 downloads is CRAZY.
2) Please contact us before doing so.
3) Send us monthly statistics of downloads for the iso.
If you would like to add a link to BackTrack downloads to your
website, please use
http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html as the download
link.
Rants
Problems, fixes, bugs, opinions - should all end up in our Remote
Exploit community forums, and our wiki:
http://forums.remote-exploit.org
http://wiki.remote-exploit.org
Over and out,
Muts, Max, Martin
BackTrack Developers Log
BackTrack 3.0 beta released
We just released a beta version of BackTrack 3.0.
Please report
all bugs to any of the developers.
BackTrack 2.0 stable released It's taken us almost 5 months to pull ourselves out of the beta stage. Every time we thought we were done, a new idea or improvement would surface, and we just *had* to implement it. Many features were added, and many of the old (yet persistent) bugs were fixed. We honestly believe that BackTrack v 2.0 Final is the leanest, mind blowing and sexiest version to come out and hope that you enjoy using it as much as we did making it. Find more information on our wiki at http://backtrack.offensive-security.com
Mati Aharoni Beta Release this week! Lots of updates - too busy to update the devlog! Stuff is working. Nicley. Very sexy. Planning a beta release this week - stay tuned!
Mati Aharoni - Snort 1 click setup completed Snort 2.6.0.3 + apache + php + adodb + mysql 1 click setup is completed. A nice feature for a quick IDS / rule based sniffer.
Mati Aharoni - Save Changes to CD feature implemented I've managed to get a new exciting feature working - Save changes to CD (save2cd). What this means is that if you burn BT on a multisession CD, you can boot it up, make changes, alter configurations, add scripts or modules, and then simply burn the changes to the existing CD. On the next boot, you should see your changes integrated into the CD.
Mati Aharoni - Network Boot and BTJTRMPI features integrated BackTrack network boot is ready and working. JTRMPI clustering also works out of the box.
Mati Aharoni - BackTrack Base Ready *BackTrack base is ready, with aufs and zlib squashfs compression. Kernel is 2.6.18-rc5. Base includes prism54, wlan-ng (svn), madwifi-ng and hostap wireless patches.