Live Linux Wireless and Security Distributions:
Listed are some of the
more Wireless and Penetration Testing specific Linux distros available.
Know of others?
Let us know.
Anonym.OS
Auditor
Arudius
BackTrack
CQure AP
Frenzy
Knoppix STD
Less Networks Hotspot Server
Linux LiveCD Router
Operator
Pentoo
Phlak
ProTech
Russix
Sisela
Talos Security LiveCD
WarLinux
WHAX
Anonym.OS is an OpenBSD
3.8 Live CD with strong tools for anonymizing and encrypting connections.
Standard network applications are provided and configured to take advantage of
the tor onion routing network.
Project Home Page:
http://theory.kaos.to/projects.html
The Auditor security
collection is a Live-System based on KNOPPIX; started directly from the CD-Rom.
In addition to the approx. 300 tools, the Auditor security collection contains
further background information regarding the standard configuration and
passwords, as well as word lists from many different areas and languages with
approx. 64 million entries. Tools like Wellenreiter and Kismet are
equipped with an automatic hardware identification, thus avoiding irritating and
annoying configuration of the wireless cards. Now depreciated by
Backtrack.
Project Home Page:
www.remote-exploit.org
Arudius is a Linux live
CD with tools for information assurance (penetration testing, vulnerability
analysis, etc). It is based on Slackware (Zenwalk) for i386 systems and targets
the information security audience. It features a large collection of tools
for information assurance, while maintaining small footprint (210MB mini-CD).
Project Home Page:
http://arudius.sourceforge.net/
BackTrack is the result of the merging of the Auditor and WHAX
distributions. Based on SLAX (Slackware), BackTrack provides user
modularity. This means the distribution can be easily customised by the user to
include personal scripts, additional tools, customised kernels, etc.
Project Home Page:
http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/BackTrack
An 802.11 wireless access point that
runs on a tiny Linux distribution, small enough to fit onto a bootable floppy
disk. It currently has support for running as a bridge or gateway. It
comes with a dhcp server and firewall and has support for 802.1X.
Configure the AP using the cqure.conf supplied on the floppy.
Project Home Page:
www.cqure.net
Frenzy is a "portable system
administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software
for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and
analysis.
Project Home Page:
http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/
Knoppix-STD:
Knoppix based live Linux distro with
hundreds of security tools included.
Project Home Page:
http://www.knoppix-std.org/index.html
Bootable Linux CD that allows you to
share your broadband connection and use WIFI. You can use DSL, ADSL, Cable
Modem, T1, Fixed IPs, Dial-Up, WIFI, build you own Access Point.
Project Home Page:
www.wifi.com.ar/english/cdrouter.html
Less Networks Hotspot
Server allows you to turn your pc into wireless hotspot.
Project Home Page:
www.lessnetworks.com
Operator:
Operator is a Linux (Debian)
distribution that runs from a single bootable CD. The Operator contains an
extensive set of Open Source network security tools that can be used for
monitoring and discovering networks. Operator also contains a set of
computer forensic and data recovery tools that can be used to assist you in data
retrieval on the local system.
Project Home Page:
http://www.ussysadmin.com/operator/
Pentoo is a Gentoo Linux
based LiveCD that comes with a lot of tools for penetration testing, scanning
one's network, exploiting vulnerabilities and so on.
Project Home Page:
http://www.pentoo.ch/
PHLAK or [P]rofessional
[H]acker’s [L]inux [A]ssault [K]it is a modular live security Linux distribution
(a.k.a LiveCD). PHLAK comes with two light gui’s (fluxbox and XFCE4), many
security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a
derivative of Morphix.
Project Home Page:
http://www.phlak.org/modules/mydownloads/
PProtech is a specially
designed Linux distribution for security technicians and programmers, although
it can be used normally as your default desktop system. Protech can run
from anywhere in a Live environment from a CD or USB stick or it can easily be
installed in your hard drive in a few minutes.
Project Home Page:
http://www.techm4sters.org
Russix:
Russix is a Slax based
Wireless Live Linux. It has been designed to be light (circa 230Mb) and
dedicated purely to wireless auditing. It is not a script kiddy phishing tool
and as such, while it will allow you to break a WEP key in 6 key strokes and
conduct an "Evil Twin" attack in less than 5!
Project Home Page:
http://www.russix.com
A Single Bootable Floppy
based Linux distribution. It can act as a bridge, router, firewall, DHCP
server, DNS server, Wireless Access Point or any combination of these functions.
Project Home Page:
http://the.earth.li/~martin/sisela/
Talos is a security
LiveCD, based on SLAX 5.1.0 with over 90 security tools preinstalled. It runs
directly from the CD without the need to install on the harddisk.
Project Home Page:
http://www.isafe.gr/talos.html
WarLinux
"A new Linux
distribution for Wardrivers. It is available on disk and bootable CD. It's main
intended use is for systems administrators that want to audit and evaluate their
wireless network installations. Should be handy for wardriving also."
Project Home Page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/warlinux/
WHAX is the natural
evolution of Whoppix - a live cd, standalone penetration testing toolkit.
WHAX is based on SLAX, a Slackware live cd. Now depreciated by Backtrack.
Project Home Page:
http://iwhax.net/index.php/Tools
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