PHLAK 0.2 Released

An anonymous reader wrote "The project team over at PHLAK.org has released PHLAK 0.2 to all those 'waiting in the trenches'. PHLAK stands for Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit and is a modular security LiveCD distribution. It contains many, many security tools and lots of documentation. The project team, two guys from Texas, hope that by using their distro, users will learn about security and use their knowledge to practice security."

Comments

PHLAK == Knoppix for 31337 h4x0rz???

[mhesseltine]

All kidding aside, this does seem like an interesting project. Something that can be used for good (security audits, finding problems in your setup, private network testing) or bad (take it to the library and start hacking from there).

I didn't see anything in the FAQ's about this; is it possible to install other software on the ramdisk?

Re:PHLAK == Knoppix for 31337 h4x0rz???

[AlXtreme]

It is, as it's a Morphix derivative. Currently, packages can be installed using dpkg, files are overlayed onto the readonly filesystem. Not sure if sieve threw in the newer 0.6 translucency in his 0.2 release, think he did, that release seems to do quite a good job in overlaying/hiding files on the cdrom.

Knoppix for 31337 h4x0rz? well, after Phlak's first release there were some people in the security business shitting themselves over it. It's not necessarily the software, there are more security livecd's, it's the accessability of those tools. Plus, they did their best to include lots of useful docs, a very complete and useful package... for all uses ;)

Anyway, rock on sieve. Keep 'em scared :)