Exploring the BackTrack X-Windows Environment
BackTrack is designed for security enthusiasts and includes over 300 different security testing tools all conveniently categorized into a logical menu system. You can see a sample menu in Figure 5-3. We will highlight some of the tools in this chapter, but we don’t want this book to be tool-centric. Rather, the goal of this chapter is to help you become comfortable with the way the BackTrack LiveCD system works and to teach you how to customize it so that you can experiment with the tools yourself.
In addition to the comprehensive toolset, the BackTrack ...
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