Cus Productions

Well, after having my EEE for a few days we finally got broadband at the house so I could start updating and ‘tinkering’.

Given the capabilities of the machine for the price you get quite a lot of nice hardware that’s suitable for penetration testing. With that in mind, I installed Backtrack.

More than 300 pen-test and security tools at my disposal, plus my own tool sets = an ideal little device. This is where my laptop is overkill (except for computing RC4 collisions in WEP keys or other algorithmic analases) and a PDA is just too small to convey the information and store the tools efficiently. Even with the computational stuff, I’ll look at connecting to my base PC and streaming the data for off-unit processing. The Atheros wireless chipset is an ideal base for testing, and data injection can be performed.

The only downside is that Backtrack is based around SLAX which isn’t my ideal distro, but it’s serviceable and I’m sure over time I’ll start bending it to my will. It beats my laptop setup security-wise which is a set of around 70 tools I’ve acquired that I’ve got to check for updates for quite often. This issue of Backtrack brings ‘Fast-Track’ for performing updates to the various tools and their dependencies.