I am in school for system security, and the class i'm in right now has Hacking wars between mini lans in the room. We can use anything we want to gain any sort of access to another lan, and i need some ideas on what i should use. I've used whoppix a little bit, but it seems to be outdated. Plus I don't know that much about linux. I want to know what utilities people have used that they like. Thanx

imho: Operator

I've always found that Knoppix-STD (Security Tools Distribution) does the trick.

I do enjoy Knoppix-std but it seems to lag behind in updates. Auditor seems to be a better choice right now as it is updated every couple of months.

http://new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_main

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I won't say a certain live CD, the best one is the one that you create yourself. Even knoppix has a lot of things which are missing. But for general purposes, knoppix is the best. Auditor is specialized for security.

IMHO, Auditor is the best.

But like belgther said, it would be much better if you create by yourself.

You will have the only and most updated packages and you could remove the garbage you dont need. I wrote a tutorial about it, its at the Linux part of this forum.

Good luck

The best 4 me is Whoppix.

I think building your own is best, but if you don't, I'd go with auditor. I wrote a tut at http://www.governmentsecurity.org/forum/in...14&#entry107014

my method of choice (because i have to run xp on my laptop for work) is to run a debian ssh server on my LAN and the pretty much any tool you need is just an apt-get away . but if you need tools on one of these other cd's just pull it from the disc on to the server. that way you have the best of all worlds

I think Whoppix is great, check out the list of tools it has over @ whoppix.net

It is defiantly impressive...

Auditor and Whoppix...

But im debian born and bred

my favourite is auditor.
but what muts created with whoppix is very impressive, and additionally very useful

Ubuntu linux!

Has nice desktop, a nice driver collection and is prety fast for a live cd..

You can try Operator

It's based on knoppix and it's a debian distribution with many hacking - security tools added.

I don't know about the current version but i think it's updated enough for your job.

Operator

whoppix is the best live linux for pent. testers. how could whoppix be outdated???

you have all the tools you need, kernel wich is very stabile and secure...

u can customize the tools but from your question I doubt that you have enough skillz.

damn small linux is only 50mb so fits on a bootable usb pen drive, maybe of some help

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

just to add some microsoft product placement, also a live windows version that can be cut down to small sizes aswell

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

probably of no help but thought id post anyway

dear friend this is your first post here
and nobody knows how much "skillz" have YOU ..
so before to flame other people please
think twice ..

regards ..

@ Andy

I'm not flaming.
look this and you will se what I'm talking about. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/323

regardz...

@y'all...

I think it was a fair assesment as in the question he says "Plus I don't know that much about linux" and I think judging from that it is fair to say that creating a custom CD is a bit beyond what he is trying to do.

I'm a linux meister and I don't bother with creating my own CD just cause the current ones meet my needs. And I'm lazy.

Anyways skillz vs no skillz stops here. Security tools advice only if anyone wants to post more.

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