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 Tiny Twin” attack in less than 5, it will not let you become the latest version of Barclays Bank.

Russix evolved from an internal UK Military Wireless auditing tool (debian based) which russ had developed while working for them as a penetration tester.

Russix is a free download for auditing. It scripts together several WLAN attacks and will allow the user to break a WEP key in about 6 keystrokes! It will not be modified by us to make it into a phishing tool as that would be evil.

It comprises a number of tools including aircrack-ng, cowpatty, asleap, nmap, wireshark, hydra, as well as scripted attacks to aid cracking WEP and WPA networks. Currently, it only supports Atheros based chipsets and those of you lucky enough to own 2 atheros cards will be able to use the scripted Evil Twin attack.

Interested in hearing any feedback you may have or improvements you can make.

You can download it here:

Built on 9th Dec 2007: Download latest version

Or read more here.

BackTrack v.2.0 is finally released, it’s been a long wait that’s for sure, it does look good though so perhaps it was worth waiting.

You can find some screenshots here.

BackTrack ranked number one in Darknet’s well regarded list 10 Best Security Live CD Distros (Pen-Test, Forensics & Recovery).

It’s taken BackTrack almost 5 months to pull themselves out of the beta stage. Many features have been added and many of the persistent bugs have been fixed.

New exciting features in BackTrack 2, to mention a few:

• Updated Kernel-Running 2.6.20, with several patches.
• Broadcom based wireless card support
• Most wireless drivers are built to support raw packet injection
• Metasploit2 and Metasploit3 framework integration
• Alignment to open standards and frameworks like ISSAF and OSSTMM
• Redesigned menu structure to assist the novice as well as the pro
• Japanese input support-reading and writing in Hiragana / Katakana / Kanji.

As usual, Nessus is not included into BackTrack as Tenable forbid redistribution.

The public wiki project is available at http://backtrack.offensive-security.com. Please help us by providing entries in HCL (Hardware compatibility list).

Read more about BackTrack here.

You can download BackTrack here:

BackTrack 2 Stable release Mar 06 2007