It’s the news the penetration testers have all been long awaiting; Backtrack 4 final is here and now. Though many people, myself included, have been using various pre-release, beta release, and pre-final release flavors for almost a year now ever since first standing in line to hand over my usb stick to a group of elite hackers at Shmoocon 5, now there is no excuse. The final release is just in time for Hack or Halo at Shmoocon 6, saving me the trouble of making sure to update every tool I might possibly need before the big event. So why does Backtrack rock in general? It’s basically most of the tools you will need for your pentest all rolled into[…]
Author: Georgia Weidman
It’s all over the news; Google finally has an Android to call its own. The media is throwing around terms such as iPhone killer, but that doesn’t seem altogether likely to me. Perhaps it will level out to a PC vs. Mac sort of scenario. This actually sounds plausible as in my research I came across news of a project working on porting Mac OSX 7 to the iPhone, and the great big thing with Android back when I got mine was running Debian on the G1.