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 ...

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”, ...

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, ...

BackTrack Linux Live distro v.1.0 released Analysis May 30, 2006 1 min Data and Information Security Security ...

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 ...

The developers of Kali Linux for pentesters, which evolved from Backtrack, have released version 2025.4. It updates the ...

Anyone involved in or even significantly interested in cybersecurity has probably heard of Kali Linux. Since its early days as BackTrack, it has been considered the standard in penetration testing and ...

I often write about all the excellent tools for testing the security of Windows systems. There are excellent freeware, open source and commercial tools that all run on the Windows OS. They are, for ...