myIntuition…

an intro to the coolest linux distro EVER….

Posted in Hobbies, Miscellaneous..., Networking Security, Operating Systems by Zubin Mithra on January 7, 2009

one fine day i decide to take my work a little bit more seriously; and i google “security distro`s”. i come across a slackware variant known as “backtrack”. on further reading i get to know that it`s currently rated #1 among security distro`s and that it was created from two pre-existing distro`s named “WHAX” and “Auditor”.

i did something which any guy my age would do.

i downloaded the live CD image of the distro; burned a CD and booted it up. i had no idea what was in store for me. it offered various boot options and  i chose to use the KDE 3.5 interface which it offered. on further snooping around, i found that the number of tools in backtrack3 topped 150.

it was overwhelming.

then i did something not many guys my age would be crazy enough to attempt alone.

i started working on the tools one-by-one. being just 19 years old and having only the very basic idea of networking and OS architecture; i set off. it was`nt easy as my foundations were weak; in most of the cases i just did not have one. the first tool i came across was netcat. now, i`ve decided to release tutorials on the tools i`ve mastered. they`re no shortcut. but they`ll help you on what exactly to learn; thus helping you use these tools in a faster and more efficient manner than i did(hopefully ;-) ). these tutorials assume you have a basic idea on networking and OS`s like linux and its variants.

the tutorials`ll be put up soon enough…

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  1. [...] whois lookups can be performed on most linux based systems using the terminal but i personally suggest that you use backtrack for the very same;never heard of backtrack? [...]

  2. [...] usual i`m using backtrack for this exercise. At the bash prompt, i [...]


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