References

Kevin Mitnick from MitnickSecurity(.com):
  "I wish I had BT3 many years ago. It would have saved me a lot of time.."

H.D. Moore from Metasploit(.com):
  "BackTrack is the fastest way to go from boot to remote root."

Lance Spitzner from Honeynet Project and HoneyTech:
  "BackTrack is an amazing collection of security tools. Instead of spendings hours/days building tools, you can focus on learning and assessing. I highly recommend it."

Joshua Wright from Hasborg(.com) and trainer for SANS security courses:
  "Backtrack gives us the ability to focus on the assessment, audit or pen-testing task at hand, easing the frustration of system setup and maintenance."

Donnie 'morning_wood' Werner from Zone-H(.org):
  "Backtrack is an invaluable tool in our Hands-On-Hacking seminars."

Marc Ruef from Computec(.ch):
  "There is no doubt: Backtrack is made by professional hackers for professional hackers. What a great tool for penetration testing!"


FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 

According to the pictures and the text in this article about WEP cracking, the FBI seems to use Auditor Security Collection and / or BackTrack to conduct and demonstrate their attacks. See the full story at: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/24251/100/


BackTrack2 included in Hakin9 magazine 

Hakin9 logo     The Hakin9 magazine (www.hakin9.org) now includes a CD containing BackTrack2 in every edition.


BackTrack in the Movies - Tiger Team is using it 

Tiger Team Screenshot BackTrack     The new CourtTV series with the Tiger Team is gaining so much attention. While watching the first episode i have seen that bootscreen. In the top-left corner you can see the blurry remote-exploit.org logo. And the second line from the bottom is showing "Using BT data from /mnt/hdc/BT". Its hell of a fun to see "movie stars" work with our toolset like the other 250'000 pros out there. Send us further movie screenshot if you got some. Click on the picture if you like to see it full size.

PC Professionell Innovation Award 2006/2007 

Innovation Award 2007     At the Cebit 2007, the German computer magazine "PC Professionell" hand over the innovation award in the category OpenSource to the remote-exploit.org team for their BackTrack product. For us it is a great pleasure to see that our product is not only accepted by specialists all over the globe, but also mainstream did recognize its potential. You can find some pictures from the happening at http://picasaweb.google.com/max.moser/PCProfessionellNomination.

SANS 

According to participants of their wireless auditing module course, they use the Auditor Security Collection for labs and education and even seem to distribute it. The course content is available at:
www.sans.org/training/description.php?tid=343&ref=1511


Insecure.org's 2006 Annual Top Security Tool Survey

BackTrack has been voted to the incredible #32 overall category. In the category "Security-Oriented Operating Systems" BackTrack is at the 1st place. Yeah we won. Thank you all for voting and here is some text copied from the description on the voting site: "This excellent bootable live-CD Linux distribution comes from the merger of Whax and Auditor. It boasts a huge variety of Security and Forensics tools and provides a rich development environment". See the full details at: www.sectools.org/sec-distros.html


DarkNet's 10 Best Security Live Distros

We made it again to rank #1, first place! Even the old Auditor Security Collection, which has been replaced by BackTrack has made its ranking to the 5th place. See the full list here: www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/10-best-security-live-cd-distros-pen-test-forensics-recovery/


Syngress releases book about & including Auditor Security Collection

book     Syngress published a comprehensive penetration testing book which used our distro as a solid base and educational common environment. Here is some quoted text from their website: "This is the first fully integrated Penetration Testing book and bootable Linux CD containing the Auditor Security Collection which includes over 300 of the most effective and commonly used open source attack and penetration testing tools. This powerful tool kit and authoritative reference is written by the security industry’s foremost penetration testers including Johnny Long, Chris Hurley, and SensePost. This unique package provides you with a completely portable and bootable Linux attack distribution and authoritative reference to the toolset included and the required methodology."

Check it out at their website: www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=3330


EC-Council uses customized BackTrack

For their Certified Ethical Hacker Training classes, they have aquired some customization services to use that version as a base operating system for their classes.
See www.eccouncil.org


Mavensecurity uses our distros in clasess

For their training classes, Maven security uses Auditor Security Collection and BackTrack.
See www.mavensecurity.com


Career academy uses our distros in video training material

Career academy sells video based trainings. According to a remote-exploit.org reader, they use Auditor Security Collection. We have a proof screenshot of it. Officialy there is no statement to the usage.