Scott Granneman, 2005-05-05
Whether you need to sniff for wireless networks or carry Nessus, Nmap and the Metasploit Framework with you in your pocket, there's a security-based Live CD out there for you.
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Forgot an Important ONE
2005-05-07
Anonymous
Anonymous
You forgot one of the best and originals. Which is L.A.S. Linux (http://localareasecurity.com). It's been around as long as STD if not a little longer. Theirs is unique since it is intended to fit on a 180MB or 210MB CD. It still has around 300 security tools just no fat like the others. Along ...
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Live CD Paradise
2005-05-07
ddavid
ddavid
Well, excellent! As a new learner in the field of security, it is incredibly helpful reading articles which offers broad overviews of large collections of tools, as differentiating these collections can be quite hard. It is a lot easier diving in and exploring, as of course is a necessity, with som...
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One more essential one
2005-05-11
Timmay
Timmay
Here is another great windows based one (you need an XP SP1/SP2 cd to build it, not that hard to come by ;) http://www.ubcd4win.com/
One of the reasons I keep this one around is huge, you can load up ntuser.dat files and edit them. This means you can edit any part of the registry, including user...
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One of the reasons I keep this one around is huge, you can load up ntuser.dat files and edit them. This means you can edit any part of the registry, including user...
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I have tried all of these
2005-05-12
scramble
scramble
I have tried all of the live-cd's mentioned in the article. IMHO the main differences are:
Whoppix has good training videos in flash, and contains all of the securityfocus, securityforest, and metasploit exploits on the cd; Auditor has the best hardware detection for wireless cards and even put me...
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Whoppix has good training videos in flash, and contains all of the securityfocus, securityforest, and metasploit exploits on the cd; Auditor has the best hardware detection for wireless cards and even put me...
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Trinux!
2005-05-13
Anonymous
Anonymous
How could Trinux not get a mention? It's been around since like, 1998. When it came out, it wasn't even extravagent enough to be a liveCD - it was a couple of live floppies, back in the day when a few floppies could hold most of the tools you'd want...
Kids these days!
/me waves cane...
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Kids these days!
/me waves cane...
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Live CD Paradise
2005-05-17
Anonymous
Anonymous
Wireless tools configured right out of the box? I've tried the newest versions Whoppix and knoppix and found they both recognized at least two of my wireless cards but both failed to run airsnort and kismet correctly. Both the orinoco gold 802.11b and linksys cards that have worked with airsnort a...
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