The Live Hacking CD is a new Linux distribution packed with tools and
utilities for ethical hacking, penetration testing and countermeasure
verification. Based on Ubuntu this ‘Live CD’ runs directly from the CD
and doesn’t require installation on your hard-drive. Once booted you
can use the included tools to test, check and ethically hack your own
network to make sure that it is secure from outside intruders.
Dr. Ali Jahangiri, the well known security expert and author of Live
Hacking: The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Techniques & Countermeasures
for Ethical Hackers & IT Security Experts, is pleased to announce
the launch of the Live Hacking CD, a new Linux distribution designed
for ethical hacking. The Live Hacking CD contains the tools and
utilities you need to test and hack your own network but using the
tools and techniques that more malicious hackers would use.
As a derivative of Ubuntu this ‘Live CD’ runs directly from the CD
and doesn’t need installing on your hard-drive. Once booted you can use
the included tools to perform penetration tests and ethically hack on
your own network to ensure that it is secure from outside intruders. As
well as the standard Linux networking tools the Live Hacking CD has
tools for DNS enumeration and reconnaissance as well as utilities for
foot-printing, password cracking and network sniffing. It also has
programs for spoofing and a set of wireless networking utilities.
Dr. Jahangiri, the world renowned security expert and the
brain-child behind the Live Hacking CD, has made it freely available to
the public to encourage IT professionals and others to enhance their
knowledge and to prepare for the malicious activities of the
unscrupulous hacker.
‘I am really happy to see we accomplished this public domain project
and we had a strong response, from IT professionals, in the first hours
of releasing the Live Hacking CD’ said Dr. Ali Jahangiri. ‘I would like
to thank the Live Hacking CD team members and our senior consultant
Gary Sims for their efforts and non-stop work in the past two months.’
The Live Hacking CD is based on open source technology and uses the
popular Ubuntu Linux distribution as its base. All the tools included
can be freely found in either the Ubuntu repositories or on the
Internet. The CD is designed to be a platform to help IT security
professionals (as well as those with a general interest in information
security) to start, understand and conduct penetration tests and
ethical hacking.
As with all community and open source projects, Dr. Jahangiri and
his team welcome all comments, and suggestions along with possible
cooperation opportunities to make the Live Hacking CD as complete and
useful as possible.
Accompanying the Live Hacking CD is the LiveHacking.com website
which contains information about Dr. Jahangiri’s book “Live Hacking:
The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Techniques & Countermeasures for
Ethical Hackers & IT Security Experts” and details of the Live
Hacking Workshops which Dr Jahangiri runs internationally to introduce
IT professionals to the world of hacking and empower them with the
knowledge they need to thwart the criminal elements in cyberspace.
