Offensive Security, leaders in Online information security training, proudly announced on August 18th, the immediate availability for download of the first point release of the very popular BackTrack ...

Security professionals have been relying on the BackTrack security distribution for many years to help them perform their assessments. The industry has been waiting for the next major release of ...

Offensive Security, leaders in Online information security training, proudly announced last evening the final release of their extremely popular security oriented operating system, BackTrack 4. After ...

The flaw is a privileged escalation issue in BackTrack’s wireless interface connection daemon (WICD). “There exist several design flaws [in WICD] culminating in privilege escalation exploit”, ...

A computer small enough to fit inside the palm of a hand sits in the corner of an office, its lights blinking. It looks like a toy to most, but the small ARM-based machine is running the latest ...

After a beta period of almost a year, the developers of BackTrack have released the long-awaited successor to version 3. This specialized Linux distribution keeps its focus on security tools for ...

Penetration testing platform BackTrack has been relaunched as Kali Linux after a major restructure. The creators of Backtrack told SC details of the new Debian platform are being kept under wraps, ...

A zero-day vulnerability affecting the last version of Backtrack Linux has been spotted by a student during an Ethical Hacking class organized by the InfoSec Institute. The discovery was made public ...