BackBox Linux 2.05 released!

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The BackBox team is proud to announce the release 2.05 of BackBox Linux. The new release include features such as Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Kernel 2.6.38 and Xfce 4.8.0. The ISO images (32bit & 64bit) can be downloaded from the following location: https://www.backbox.org/download

What’s new

  • System upgrade
  • Bug corrections
  • Performance boost
  • Improved start menu
  • Improved WiFi driver (compat-wireless aircrack patched)
  • New Hacking tools: creepy, fern-wifi-cracker, joomscan, pyrit, reaver, xplico, etc.
  • Updated tools: crunch, fimap, hydra, magictree, metasploit, set, sipvicious, skipfish, w3af, weevely, wireshark, wirouterkeyrec, wpscan, zaproxy, theharvester, xsser, etc.

System requirements

  • 32-bit or 64-bit processor
  • 256 MB of system memory (RAM)
  • 4.4 GB of disk space for installation
  • Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • DVD-ROM drive or USB port

BackBox Linux 2.01 released!

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The BackBox team is proud to announce the release 2.01 of BackBox Linux.The new release include features such as Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Kernel 2.6.38 and Xfce 4.8.0. The ISO images (32bit & 64bit) can be downloaded from the following location: https://www.backbox.org/download

What’s new

  • System upgrade
  • Performance boost
  • New look
  • Improved start menu
  • Bug corrections
  • New sections such as Forensic Analysis, Documentation & Reporting and Reverse Engineering
  • New Hacking tools and updated tools such as dradis 2.8, ettercap 0.7.4.2, john 1.7.8, metasploit 4.2, nmap 5.51, set 2.5.2, sleuthkit 3.2.1, w3af 1.0, weevely 0.5, wireshark 1.6.3, etc.

System requirements

  • 32-bit or 64-bit processor
  • 256 MB of system memory (RAM)
  • 4.4 GB of disk space for installation
  • Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • DVD-ROM drive or USB port

BackBox 2.01 is coming to town

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As many of you already know our project is quite young but in just a couple of months we reached unbelievable goals. Currently BackBox has thousands of users all around the world and their number is rising up continuously. Several opinionists think that the “open” vision has been the key of this achievement. BackBox’s staff wish to remember all of you that whoever wants can collaborate and he doesn’t necessarily need to be a professional user. There is a variety of fields on which interested users can offer their knowledge as the forum, our website wiki but also advertising, marketing or even writing new documentation…

There shouldn’t be any issues about releasing the new BackBox version until the end of January 2012. The new version is going to fix some irrelevant bugs of the previous version, it will have updated packages and some tiny optimizations. Therefore there won’t be any major changes until BackBox 3. As regards the future versions, our purpose is to use Ubuntu’s LTS as basic platform so there will be just one major release and some intermediate releases every 4 months that would only introduce some bugs fixes and updated packages. The benefit from this choice should be that users wouldn’t be forced to reinstall the OS on every new release but they could keep it up to date just by using apt-get or synaptic tool.

Waiting for the new release, every suggestion from our users would be much appreciated.

Stay tuned!