Backtrack alternative Xiaopan OS is a small Tiny Core Linux based operating system specific for wireless penetration testing, it comes with the XFE desktop environment, a very lightweight graphical front end, the distribution can run as a live CD, from a USB thumbdrive with Unetbootin or used inside a virtual machine. Numerous wireless card controllers are supported, including Atheros and Broadcom, the most widely used chipsets. As a result of the distribution being based on Tiny Core Linux all of the .tcz precompiled packages available for Tiny Core can be installed in Xiopan using the TCL Appbrowser, non hacking utilities like games, media player, CD burner, VoIP software and Truecrypt can all be optionally added to Xiopan OS. Wifi hacking Linux distribution Xiaopan This Linux live CD is first class penetration testing tool to audit wireless access points security and replaces Beini, a very similar distribution no longer active. Xiaopan Linux WPA2 hacking Visit Xiaopan OS homepage
Top Ten Linux Penetration Testing Distributions By Henry Dalziel | Cyber Security Blogger | Concise Courses Post written on November 7, 2012 Update! (January 2015) This post is very old now…. Something much more interesting – and up to date – is our list of 16 Hacker Distro’s. We list all the major Linux Pentesting/ Hacker Distro’s in one place. Also, go and check out our ‘2015 Best Linux Hacking OS Poll’ – voted on by you guys: that’s here. Thanks for stopping by. In summary, our new 2015 Linux Hacker Distro Directory contains the following: As of early 2012 BackTrack was used by over four million amateur and professional security researchers and professionals. Update January 2015: Related Post: Poll! Update May 2013: Related Post: Poll! Update February 2013: Owing to some great comments below we edited this post so it has now become the “12 Best Linux Penetration Distro List!” 1. The mamma or best known of Linux pentesting distros. BackTrack is based on the ever-popular Ubuntu. 2. 3. BackBox is getting more popular by the day. 4. 5. 6. 7.
BackBox BackBox is a Linux distribution for penetration testers based on Ubuntu.It is one of the lightest and fastest Linux distros that are currently available on the Internet.It uses the Xfce component for the desktop environment and is suitable for web application analysis,network analysis,vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. The interesting part with the BackBox team is that if there is a tool that is not inside the repositories you can make a request and they will include it. Some of the features that offers are: Forensic AnalysisInformation GatheringVulnerability AssessmentExploitationPrivilege EscalationMaintaining AccessSocial EngineeringWireless AnalysisDocumentation and ReportingReverse EngineeringVoIP Analysis Tool List You can find most of the well know tools like: MetasploitNmapJohn the ripperWiresharkDradisEttercapSocial Engineering Toolkitw3af Website: Image: BackBox 2 Menu Like this: Like Loading...