BackTrack was the winner of our recent Hive Five for best Live CD, so we decided to take it for a test drive and show off a few of the features for everybody else. BackTrack can be installed to a ...

The objective of penetration testing is to replicate the actions of a malicious attacker. No attacker desires discovery of surreptitious entry into the network, and hence employs stealth techniques to ...

I often write about all the excellent tools for testing the security of Windows systems. There are excellent freeware, open source and commercial tools that all run on the Windows OS. They are, for ...

On January 11, 2010 the BackTrack team published the official release of BackTrack version 4. It is now possible to download both the traditional ISO and a high-useful VMWare virtual machine image.

Roger A. Grimes is a contributing editor. Roger holds more than 40 computer certifications and has authored ten books on computer security. He has been fighting malware and malicious hackers since ...