LiveCD News » Security http://www.livecdnews.com Daily News from the LiveCD World Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:20:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 MultiBootISOs Boots Multiple Operating Systems from a USB Drive http://www.livecdnews.com/2010/07/12/multibootisos-boots-multiple-operating-systems-from-a-usb-drive/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2010/07/12/multibootisos-boots-multiple-operating-systems-from-a-usb-drive/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:53:27 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/?p=778

Can’t decide whether you should commit your spare thumb drive to Windows recovery, Ubuntu, or some other live-booting OS? Run MultiBootISOs on your USB drive, and you won’t have to choose—you’ll just choose between them at start-up.

via Lifehacker

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Lifehacker readers apparently love a live CD that is all work and no play. Backtrack, a security-oriented live CD packed with useful tools, took home the crown for top live CD.

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]]> http://www.livecdnews.com/2008/03/10/how-to-reset-a-forgotten-root-password-with-knoppix/feed/ 1 BackTrack 2 security live CD http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/04/24/backtrack-2-security-live-cd/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/04/24/backtrack-2-security-live-cd/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:57:01 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/04/24/backtrack-2-security-live-cd/ Linux.com reviews BackTrack 2.

BackTrack is a live CD Linux distribution that focuses on penetration testing. A merger of two older security-related distros — Whax and Auditor Security Collection — BackTrack bundles more than 300 security tools.

]]> http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/04/24/backtrack-2-security-live-cd/feed/ 3 Home User Thursday March 15, 2007 Wiping old hard disks http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/03/17/home-user-thursday-march-15-2007wiping-old-hard-disks/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/03/17/home-user-thursday-march-15-2007wiping-old-hard-disks/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:52:05 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/03/17/home-user-thursday-march-15-2007wiping-old-hard-disks/ The Star Online has some instructions for using Darik’s Boot and Nuke to erase hard drives.

]]> http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/03/17/home-user-thursday-march-15-2007wiping-old-hard-disks/feed/ 0 Securing Linux by breaking it with Damn Vulnerable Linux http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/28/securing-linux-by-breaking-it-with-damn-vulnerable-linux/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/28/securing-linux-by-breaking-it-with-damn-vulnerable-linux/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:49:42 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/28/securing-linux-by-breaking-it-with-damn-vulnerable-linux/ Linux.com reviews an interesting new LiveCD designed for learning software security.

“The main idea behind DVL,” says Schneider, “was to build up a training system that I could use for my university lectures.” His goal was to design a Linux system that was as vulnerable as possible, to teach topics such as reverse code engineering, buffer overflows, shellcode development, Web exploitation, and SQL injection.

]]> http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/28/securing-linux-by-breaking-it-with-damn-vulnerable-linux/feed/ 0 How to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack Live CD http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/01/how-to-crack-a-windows-password-with-ophcrack-live-cd/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/01/how-to-crack-a-windows-password-with-ophcrack-live-cd/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:11:30 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/01/how-to-crack-a-windows-password-with-ophcrack-live-cd/ Lifehacker uses screenshots to show how to crack Windows passwords with a LiveCD.

]]> http://www.livecdnews.com/2007/02/01/how-to-crack-a-windows-password-with-ophcrack-live-cd/feed/ 4 Insert Linux recovery live cd http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/12/18/insert-linux-recovery-live-cd/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/12/18/insert-linux-recovery-live-cd/#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:36:50 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/12/18/insert-linux-recovery-live-cd/ gnuman.com has a review of the security LiveCD INSERT.

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Rousseau wanted to make Sectoo Linux a lightweight system, in terms of minimal requirements. He said that 64MB or even 32MB of RAM should be enough to run Sectoo.

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GNU/Linux live CDs are increasingly playing an important role in the free software community. They serve as advocacy tools, they make it possible for newbies to try out software without having to install anything and they make fantastic rescue disks. While all the best known live CDs are GNU/Linux variants, there are also several *BSD live CDs out there. I decided to give them a test run.

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]]> http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/05/26/backtrack-10-final-released/feed/ 2 Frenzy 1.0 Beta 1 Screenshots http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/05/04/frenzy-10-beta-1-screenshots/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/05/04/frenzy-10-beta-1-screenshots/#comments Thu, 04 May 2006 22:10:56 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/?p=400 OSDir.com has screenshots of the new Frenzy 1.0 Beta 1 BSD LiveCD.

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]]> http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/02/24/penetration-tester%e2%80%99s-open-source-toolkit/feed/ 0 First Look: BackTrack 3.0 http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/02/06/first-look-backtrack-30/ http://www.livecdnews.com/2006/02/06/first-look-backtrack-30/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:47:11 +0000 nick http://www.livecdnews.com/?p=285 DistroWatch.com has one of the first reviews of BackTrack, the results of WHAX (Whoppix) and Auditor security LiveCDs joining together.

Once on the desktop, you will immediately notice the “BackTrack” submenu on the KDE panel. This is the most exciting part of this distribution, a place were all the specialist utilities can be accessed from. It is pointless to list them all here, but let me assure you that the collection is truly astonishing and includes tools for sniffing remote router traffic, cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), “bluesnarfing” (a method of hacking into Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones), scanning networks for vulnerabilities, uncovering weaknesses in the Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol (PPTP), decrypting SSL traffic and recovering passwords.

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