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Test Your Environment’s Security with BackTrack

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 17, 2008

“In the field of penetration testing, BackTrack is today’s
premier Linux distribution. Designed for, created by, and used by
security professionals around the globe, BackTrack is the result of
a merger between two earlier, competing distributions–WHAX and
Auditor Security Collection. The most recent beta version was
released on June 10.

“BackTrack 3.0 beta (BT3) is showing up in a lot of places these
days. There was a presentation in February at ShmooCon, an annual
hacker convention. At this year’s National Collegiate Cyber Defense
Competition (NCCDC), it was the distro of choice for the Red
Team–the attackers–made up of experienced security
professionals…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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