After demonstrating and still tweaking the nervously expected BackTrack 4 beta at shmoocon, it is now available for download from some number of official mirrors. There are several torrents named bt4 but believe they are full of malware. The Remote-Exploit encourages you to download it directly from them. They have made a big decision on this version – moved from from Slackware to (as we have seen) an Ubuntu server with
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Can your CPU do this? The idea is, I have a notebook and I want to extend the time of working on the nootbook without being pluged into the electric outlet. There are many possibilities how to do it. It definitely means that you have installed linux based operating system. You can save something by taking away modules that are unnecessary for hardware or by reducing the backlight of LCD. And what is the second biggest time glutton right after LCD?
Before we start, the 700 MB ISO image which is mentioned in the news is the stripped to fit onto a CD. The Full version of BackTrack 3 Beta is 1 GB big, named as the USB version. It can only be installed on a Flash disk or be burnt onto a DVD with some modifications. This article is a simple guide to a Flash disk instalation. Acording to available information, the lowest capacity of flash this version of BackTrack has been tested on is 2 GB.
Last year we told about not so well know tool called MDK, as part of the “Cracking WEP key – Acces Point with pree-shared key (PSK” concept. Alot of time has passed by since then and now we have well workiong stable version even with GUI extension Charon. It was not much of a deal in Fall 2007, but the situation has changed. The autor has also decidedd to eneble the Destruction Mode in the menu.
As you might not have noticed, there is an inovation in the last release of the Backtrack 3 Beta. A new posibility to instal applications via the new graphical interface (GUI) called gslapt (a slap-get add-on). The problem is that something went wrong either during the making or compiling process of the installed version. It just doesn’t work. Instead of gslap showing you the avilable packages you want to get, it only shows you the ones already installed.
Remote-Exploit released BackTrack 3 Final version. Possible downloads are CD image, USB image and VMware image. Links (+ MD5 and SHA1) to download all the version are: CD Image (bt3-final.iso), size 695 MB (MD5: f79cbfbc d25147df 32f5f6df a287c2d9, SHA1: 471f0e41 93136651 7ea8bffe 910fb09a 815e42c7), USB Version (bt3final_usb.iso), size 784 MB (MD5: 5d27c768 e9c2fef6 1bbc208c 78dadf22, SHA1: 3aceedea 0e8e70ff f2e7f7a7 f3039704 014e980f)
New lzm pack released. What is Aircrack? Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact, Aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.
Remote-Exploit released BackTrack 3 pre-release of the final version. In the short the Final version will be released. Link for download is available on the remote-exploit’s freenode irc channel. After some testinig and fine-tuning, the Final version will be released. It is exepected in a week (around June 20th). It’s interesting that the pre-release does not have a bugtracker, but there probably is a reason for that decision.
