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Whether you are hacking wireless, exploiting servers, learning, performing a web application assessment, or social-engineering a client, BackTrack is the one-stop-shop for all of your security needs. BackTrack is intended for all audiences from the most savvy security professionals to early newcomers to the information security field. BackTrack promotes a quick and easy way to find and update the largest database of security tool collection to-date.

The evolution of BackTrack spans many years of development, penetration tests, and unprecedented help from the security community. BackTrack originally started with earlier versions of live Linux distributions called Whoppix, IWHAX, and Auditor. When BackTrack was developed, it was designed to be an all in one live cd used on security audits and was specifically crafted to not leave any remnants of itself on the laptop. It has since expanded to being the most widely adopted penetration testing framework in existence and is used by the security community all over the world.

Offensive Security has announced the release of BackTrack 4, an Ubuntu-based live DVD containing a large collection of tools for security audits, computer forensics and penetration testing: “BackTrack 4 final is out and along with this release come some exciting news, updates, and developments. BackTrack 4 has been a long and steady road, with the release of a beta last year, we decided to hold off on releasing BackTrack 4 final until it was perfected in every way, shape and form. This release includes a new kernel, a larger and expanded toolset repository, custom tools that you can only find on BackTrack, and more importantly, fixes to all major bugs that we knew of. This release has received an overwhelming support from the community and we are grateful to everyone who has contributed to the success of this release.”

Name of some tools that are included in BackTrack
1. Metasploit integration
2. RFMON Injection capable wireless drivers
3. Kismet
4. AutoScan-Network
5. Nmap
6. Ettercap
7. Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal)
8. BeEF (Browser Exploitation Framework)

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Use of BitTorrent is not possible on some networks (e.g. institute or office lan). By using a secure connection (SSH), you can bypass almost every firewall. Linux or a UNIX-based OS terminal supports SSH. For Windows, you have to download SSH clients. There are may SSH clients, but PuTTY is (probably) the best and certainly the most popular. For this hack you need a SSH account. You can try one of these free shell providers from this list . So here it goes….
Steps:
1. Run putty and In the address box, put the hostname or IP address of the server you have an SSH account on. Make sure the SSH radio button or check-box is ticked, and be sure you’re using port 22.
2. In the menu, click on Proxy tab under Connections and put your proxy settings there.
3. In the menu, click on SSH and select enable compression. this will compress the traffic thru your SSH tunnel, which not only provides a modest improvement in transfer rates, but has some minor security benefits as well. Set your preferred protocol to “2″, or “2 only”.
4. Click on the tunnels menu under SSH. At the bottom, select the dynamic button, and enter a source port. Use any port (greater than 1024 like 4567). Click the “add” button.
5. Go back to the session tab in the menu, enter in a title for this proxy, and click save.
6. Now Configure your BitTorrent client. In uTorrent go to Options > Preferences > Connection. Enter your port number (which u use earlier like 4567), socks 4 or 5 as type, and localhost in the proxy field. Socks5 is preferable to version four, and supported by our SSH tunnel, so select it. Click OK, and you should now be proxying thru the server with the SSH account.
You’re done, restart your BitTorrent client and you’re ready to go. BitTorrent over SSH tends to be a bit slower than your normal connection, but it’s a great solution when BitTorrent connections are blocked.