Re: delving deeper

From: GuidoZ (uberguidoz@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 20 2004 - 03:21:30 EST


> My favourite is whoppix, another knoppix variant that has a large body
> of exploits included.

I'm actually emailing from Whoppix right now. Been playing with it
most of the night. Very well built and could be a pen-testers dream.
It's not setup like many of the other Knoppix distros (though it
reminds me of Knoppix-STD), as it doesn't have all the bells and
whistles. It's chocked FULL of pen-testing applications and exploits
however. Impressvie indeed.

I also noticed something odd... Whoppix seems to support my 1GB PQI
I-Stick (USB Flash drive) while Knoppix (v3.4 and v3.6) or Knoppix-STD
(0.1) don't. Whoppix is based on Knoppix v3.6, so go figure. I'm just
happy to have a 1GB home drive I can carry around. =)

--
Peace. ~G
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:16:54 +1100, David Taylor
<David.Taylor@austrac.gov.au> wrote:
> My favourite is whoppix, another knoppix variant that has a large body
> of exploits included.
> 
> www.whoppix.net  And the site even has some nice demos to get you going
> :)
> 
> Regards
> David Taylor
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xyberpix [mailto:xyberpix@xyberpix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2004 4:00 AM
> To: Chris Benedict
> Cc: pen-test@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: delving deeper
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Go and download a copy of PHLAK(http://www.phlak.org), there's a load of
> good docs on the disc, and some really good tools to get you going.
> Above
> it all it's Linux, so it should run on your machines.
> Aside from that scour the net for anything pertaining to pen testing and
> security, and read as much as you can possibly tollerate, it'll be worth
> it in the end.
> 
> xyberpix
> 
> On Mon, 13 December, 2004 10:34 pm, Chris Benedict said:
> > Hi, I've been looking at security and penetration-testing for some
> > time now and would like to get further into it.  I'd like to learn
> > more about penetration-testing, forensics, techniques for network
> > exploration/mapping, web application security and incedent handling.
> > However I'm not really sure where to start, I looked at the OSSTMM and
> > it was above my head.
> >
> > At the moment I have a very limited budget and only a few spare
> > low-end computers.  If it matters, I'm mainly running OpenBSD.  Are
> > there any particular books or other media that I should take a look
> at?
> >
> > Any thoughts or recommendations are welcomed and greatly appreciated.
> >
> > -Chris Benedict
> >
> 
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