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BackTrack 4 Pre Final – Public Release and Download

June 19, 2009

The Remote Exploit Team is ecstatic to announce the public release of BackTrack 4 Pre Final (codename “pwnsauce“). A VMWare Image of BT4 will be released in a few days. We have major changes in BackTrack, and have tried to document and summarize them as best as possible. See the…

BackTrack 4 and Directory Encryption

June 18, 2009

BackTrack Linux

eCryptfs is a kernel-native cryptographic filesystem. It’s also a stacked filesystem, which means that eCryptfs must work on top of another filesystem such as Ext3. The result of this is that you don’t need to allocate space for eCryptfs, it will grow and shrink as you add files to it.…

ITunes Reloaded – Getting the Shell

June 18, 2009

Exploit Development

There goes our Information Security This is part 2 of our previous post about the Itunes exploit for windows. …little did we know that all the payloads being sent have to be pure AlphaNumeric (printable ASCII). The first thing to do is find a Alphanum friendly return address, which was…

ITunes Exploitation Case Study

June 11, 2009

Exploit Development

When masochism just isn’t enough Our new AWE course is about to go live for the first time, in BlackHat Vegas. We chose the most interesting exploitation cases we’ve encountered, and dove really deep into them. We had many exploits to choose from, some were too easy, and believe it…

CUDA and ATI Stream in BackTrack 4

June 8, 2009

BackTrack Linux

We’ve just pushed CUDA and ATI Stream packages to the repo, including many updates and upgrades. Although the nvidia and ATI drivers are not included by default on the livecd, they can be apt-getted, and are working out of the box. Big thanks once again to pure_hate and KMDave for…

The Fingerprinting power in BackTrack4

June 5, 2009

BackTrack Linux

If you prefer running your BackTrack4 system in “secure mode” and not always have to type your password … fingerprinting can help you! In the new BackTrack repository, the packages required to get this running are all in place: (more…)

Backtrack 4 Powered with CUDA

June 5, 2009

BackTrack Linux

Some really exciting stuff going on in the world of CUDA on backtrack 4. We have updated to cuda 2.2 and will be offering the complete developers environment. This will include every thing you need to write some of your own tools with CUDA if the need arises. If you…

Customizing the BackTrack 4 PreFinal ISO

May 31, 2009

BackTrack Linux

One of the downsides of leaving the linux live scripts and moving to non lzma enabled squashfs, is that we loose the wonderful and convenient setup for modifying the BackTrack LiveCD on our own. We use to be able to pop in a LZM file into the “optional” directory, and…

Backtrack 4 Forensics Capabilities

May 31, 2009

BackTrack Linux

When you first boot up the new Backtrack 4, you might have noticed something slightly different. So what is this “Start BackTrack Forensics” all about? (more…)

BackTrack 4 Pre Final Sneak Peek

May 26, 2009

BackTrack Linux

BackTrack 4 Pre Final available to Informer IHS subscribers BackTrack 4 development is coming along nicely. We will be releasing a BackTrack “pre-release sneak peek” version to Informer subscribers this week. If you don’t know what Informer is, you’re missing out. (more…)

Cracking the Perimeter – Online!

May 23, 2009

Offensive Security

Long overdue, our live course “Cracking the Perimeter” (CTP) is finally going online. Our ETA for the live course is the 3rd of June, 2009. We have an outstanding waiting list for CTP online, so it might take a while for registration to open to the public. This course is especially…

BackTrack 4 Pre Final

May 19, 2009

BackTrack Linux

BackTrack Base There have been many changes introduced into BackTrack 4 – most notably, our move to an Ubuntu Intrepid base. We now maintain our own full repositories with modified Ubuntu packages in addition to our own penetration testing tools. Another significant change is the updated kernel version, currently at…