Local Area Security Linux LiveCD

Posted by michael on Friday April 9, 2004 @04:04AM from the sysadmin-warchest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LocalAreaSecurity.com has released a new version of their live-CD Linux distribution for information security professionals. It contains over 200 security tools including all the usual suspects (Nmap, Nessus, etc.) as well as many other great tools less well known. The ISO images are meant to be burned on 185MB and 210MB miniCDs which they update around twice a month. L.A.S. also publishes many papers on how to use the tools as well as research docs on *nix security. Their latest papers include: Securing Mambo Open Source CMS, Doing More With Less: Nessus, and L.A.S. Security Tool Review and Howto: kismet."

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Obviously... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-09 04:06 · Score: -1, Troll

If Linux needs so many security tools, it must be less secure than Windows!

(Posted anonymously to provide cover from the WinMod hit squad!)
I put Linux Live CD's on the computers at Best Buy by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-09 04:07 · Score: -1, Troll

People then complain that this Linux OS is slow