Download BackTrack 5 R2

BackTrack is a Linux distribution that focuses on security testing and is also known as a penetration testing suite. BackTrack can be used as a live DVD, but can also be installed on a hard disk or pen drive, so that you can save discovered data and save settings that have been made. It is used, among other things, as the thé tool for the certifications of Offensive Security. The developers released release 2 of BackTrack 5 a few days ago with the following announcement:

BackTrack 5 R2 – New Kernel, New Tools

After months of development, bug fixes, upgrades, and the addition of 42 new tools, we are happy to announce the full release of BackTrack 5 R2 available for download now. Running our custom-built 3.2.6 kernel with the best wireless support available, this is our fastest and best release of BackTrack yet. In the past few weeks, we have had a flood of submissions to our BackTrack Redmine Tracker with submissions for many new tools and dozens of packages that needed to be updated and this has helped to make this one of the strongest releases we’ve ever had .

Once again, our good friends over at Paterva have created a special BackTrack edition of Maltego 3.1.0 for your data mining pleasure and we have also included their recently-released CaseFile tool to help you organize and collate data from numerous sources. If you have never used these tools before, you really need to…they will change the way your interact with data and conduct reconnaissance.

You will also find we have included Metasploit 4.2.0 Community Edition, version 3.0 of the Social Engineer Toolkit, BeEF 0.4.3.2, and many other tool upgrades too numerous to mention.

In addition to the aforementioned updates and additions, we have also added the following new tools to BackTrack:

• arduino
• bluelog
• bt audit
• dirb
• dnchef
• dpscan
• easy credits
• extundelete
• findmyhash
• golismero
• goofile
• hashcat-gui
• hash identifier
• hexor base
• horst
• hot patch
• joomscan
• killerbee
• libhijack
• magictree
• nipper-ng
• patator
• pipal
• pyrit
• reaver
• rebind
• rec studio
• redfang
• se toolkit
• sqlsus
• sslyze
• sucrack
• thc-ssl-dos
• tlssled
• uniscan
• vegan
• whatobo
• wce
• wool-e
• xspy

BackTrack 5 R2 – Reliable Weekly Security Updates and Fixes

Perhaps the one change that we are most excited about in this release is that we are now including the Ubuntu updates in our repositories on a more regular basis. So from now on, when you run a dist-upgrade, you will also receive the updated tools and packages that are being pulled from Ubuntu, making for a more secure and stable distribution. Rest assured that we will not be pushing out the updates blindly. We will be testing the updates internally to ensure that they don’t break any functionality prior to rolling them out publicly.
Backtrack 5 R1 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.