Security professionals have been relying on the BackTrack security distribution for many years to help them perform their assessments. The industry has been waiting for the next major release of ...

The flaw is a privileged escalation issue in BackTrack’s wireless interface connection daemon (WICD). “There exist several design flaws [in WICD] culminating in privilege escalation exploit”, ...

Kali Linux 1.0.7, a more mature, secure, and enterprise-ready version of BackTrack Linux, has been announced by Offensive Security and comes with a new Linux kernel, 3.14. As usually, Kali Linux 1.0.7 ...

A computer small enough to fit inside the palm of a hand sits in the corner of an office, its lights blinking. It looks like a toy to most, but the small ARM-based machine is running the latest ...

Backtrack was a Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing and it's no longer maintained. In fact, this OS was so successful that it's still being downloaded and used ...

If you’re considering a career in penetration testing, you probably already know that BackTrack is the Linux distribution favored by most pentesters due to it being preloaded with hundreds of handy ...