Security professionals have been relying on the BackTrack security distribution for many years to help them perform their assessments. The industry has been waiting for the next major release of ...

The flaw is a privileged escalation issue in BackTrack’s wireless interface connection daemon (WICD). “There exist several design flaws [in WICD] culminating in privilege escalation exploit”, ...

The developers of Kali Linux for pentesters, which evolved from Backtrack, have released version 2025.4. It updates the ...

BackTrack Linux Live distro v.1.0 released Analysis May 30, 2006 1 min Data and Information Security Security ...

Penetration testing platform BackTrack has been relaunched as Kali Linux after a major restructure. The creators of Backtrack told SC details of the new Debian platform are being kept under wraps, ...

A computer small enough to fit inside the palm of a hand sits in the corner of an office, its lights blinking. It looks like a toy to most, but the small ARM-based machine is running the latest ...

Version 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the ...

If you’re familiar with the concept of ethical hacking or have even just watched the TV series Mr Robot, you’ve likely encountered Kali Linux. This open source Debian-based distro has become so widely ...

BackTrack was the winner of our recent Hive Five for best Live CD, so we decided to take it for a test drive and show off a few of the features for everybody else. BackTrack can be installed to a ...

I often write about all the excellent tools for testing the security of Windows systems. There are excellent freeware, open source and commercial tools that all run on the Windows OS. They are, for ...