Some BackTrack 5 teaser screenshots! We’re behind schedule with BackTrack 5, but are working hard to make up for lost time. We thought we’d post a few pictures for your enjoyment of the development BT5 ISO we’re working on. The screenshots were taken on a 2.6.38-rc5 kernel.

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(Mostly taken from http://www.exploit-db.com/owned-and-exposed/ )

There’s nothing like having your butt kicked Christmas morning, which is exactly what happened to us today. We were owned and exposed, in true fashion. The zine also mentioned other sites, as well as the ettercap project being backdoored.

We are currently cleaning out our systems and analyzing the attacks – thankfully, the compromise was limited to non root access, and other than our egos, the damage is not severe. The compromise was limited to non root access to the web, blog and forums. Although there is no evidence as of yet that forum user passwords were compromised, we urge our users to change passwords at their earliest convenience.  None of our development machines have been affected by this attack. We will keep you updated as we have more information through the exploit-database blog.

Merry Christmas to you all, and a happy new year!

Over a year ago the BackTrack team joined forces with social-engineer.org to support the creation of the world’s first framework based around social engineering.

With the framework came the addition of some great tools to BackTrack, such as SET (The Social Engineers Toolkit), created by Dave “Rel1k” Kennedy.

Today, the BackTrack team would like to congratulate Chris “loganWHD” for the release of his book, “Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking”.

This book has been widely anticipated and will help many new to the field of social engineering answer that

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Yes, the time has come again – for a new kernel, and a new release of BackTrack. Codenamed “Nemesis”. This release is our finest release as of yet with faster Desktop responsiveness, better hardware support, broader wireless card support, streamlined work environment.

We could go on for pages on saying how great the new version is, but we’ll cut to the chase, and give you the run down:

• Kernel 2.6.35.8 – *Much* improved mac80211 stack.
• USB 3.0 support.
• New wireless cards supported.
• All wireless Injection patches applied, maximum support for wireless attacks.
• Even *faster* desktop environment.
• Revamped Fluxbox environment for the KDE challenged.
• Metasploit rebuilt from scratch, MySQL db_drivers working out of the box.
• Updated old packages, added new ones, and removed obsolete ones.
• New BackTrack Wiki with better documentation and support.
• Our most professional, tested and streamlined release ever.

For those wanting to upgrade an older release of BT4, an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade should do the job.

We are also pleased to announce the beginning of a new BackTrack Wiki which covers many important features of BackTrack. Get your brand new copy of BackTrack 4 R2 from our download page. If you enjoy BackTrack and would like to donate to our project – please check our community page! And as usual, if you are looking for high quality real world penetration testing training, check out our Offensive-Security courses.