After four months of lobbying, my boss has signed up me and a few coworkers for the Pentesting with Backtrack course. Within the eight taking the class there are varying levels of familiarity with...

Just remember that running Chrome as root makes the sandbox useless. Not that thats stopped me from doing it, but just a warning to others. Thanks for the tip

Look, I can use Google too!

Hint, the third link down is probably the one you want.

Oh ffs...."locate fast-track"

Updated to 3.7.1 this morning and haven't seen this issue at all. Also, the db_create command has been deprecated for more than a year now. So what have you done to try to fix the problem? Googled?...

There are quite a few programs out there that will resize partitions, google away. As for booting, deleting the partitions with Backtrack will almost certainly screw up booting. This is easily fixed...

Gonna guess your problem is NoScript.

Have you tried removing/purging the install and grabbing a fresh copy from the repos?

Naturally there are ways, you can google for the tutorials but I imagine most of them revolve around actually being able to log in first. I would just save yourself the trouble and redownload the...

What about /var/log/wicd/wicd.log? I did some Googling and it looks like people with a similar problem had a parsing error in their .conf file. Might want to check that out. For reference I Googled,...

From the firesheep github:


And why would you need Firesheep in Backtrack anyway? All the tools needed to session jack or sniff for those juicy passwords are included already.

Have you checked the wicd log for error messages to narrow down the problem?

By default a Live CD boot shouldn't require you to login. If your command prompt says, "root@bt:~#" when you boot up then you are already logged in and good to go.

I did some reading on your problem and it seems like another possible solution would be to try formatting the drive to FAT and not FAT32. Another possibility is the drive has failed. After a certain...

These are neither the windows boot manager forums or the GRUB mailing list. I would suggest asking your question in perhaps the Ubuntu forums, they are better suited to general questions of this...

You can ARP spoof just fine, that's your problem. The target thinks your computer is the router but your computer isn't actually sending those packets after that point. Do a tracert from the victim...

Update your boot defaults so it doesn't run the networking start script. It tries to start each network connection listed in /etc/network/interfaces and then make a dhcp request. So it makes the...

If it's a driver conflict I would check your blacklist ( /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist ) and see what is being loaded and what isn't.

I've got some news for you. if taking the time to plug something in is to much work you aren't gonna go very far with this distro. And as gunrunr said, not gonna happen. Take the three seconds and...

Man, is problem solving really that hard? It's been forever since I've programed in Java so I Googled your error code. Second result that came up yielded this, "Thrown to indicate that the IP address...

That indeed will not work. Apparently my previous suggestion on reading about local host was too limited in scope. Read up on why it won't work. Try searching for "Private network" or "unroutable ip"...

Do you get a blank screen upon booting or upon trying to enter KDE? If the disks are working on other machines that would tell me the problem isn't the disks but the computer. Try googling around to...

I don't see how this in any way relates to Backtrack. And of course it could be a security problem. If your Apple account is compromised then all manner of devilry could take place. As for an exploit...

What KMDave said. It does reduce overhead because everything is complied, configured and good to go. It's popularity also makes it useful (constantly updated, well maintained, etc.). I've seen...

1. Being sarcastic with the mods isn't a great way to win friends and influence enemies. KMdave asked because using aircrack to "get some WEP passwords" is a giant red flag that says you aren't using...