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Joe Harris, CCIE No. 6200 (R&S, Security & SP) is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems® specializing in Security. In addition to authoring Cisco Network Security Little Black Book, Joe has also been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He also assists various Certification Partners by beta testing their newest CCIE certification workbooks and has been recognized by Cisco as an SE Wall of Fame award winner.

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BackTrack - Pen Test Tool

October 23rd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Pen Test tool BackTrack is the most Top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.  It’s evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distribution the BackTrack could gain a massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as #1 at the surveil of insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new-comers are using it as their favorite toolset all over the globe.

***NOTE***

Running BackTrack for illegitimate or illegal purposes is not supported or recommended by 6200networks.com. Installing and/or running BackTrack without proper understanding of its operation could cause serious network instability and result in network downtime. Please use BackTrack in a sandbox environment and use only with written approval prior to running it on a production network and as always use with extreme caution.

BackTrack can be downloaded from it homepage:

http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html

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    Comment by Joshua Walton UNITED STATES Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 on 28 October 2007:

    Nice, where did you find this?

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    Comment by Joe Harris UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 on 28 October 2007:

    Hi Joshua,

    Sorry to mention it, but a fellow by the name of Joshua Walton sent this to me ;-)

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    Comment by Joshua Walton UNITED STATES Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 on 4 November 2007:

    hehe