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Assess System Security with a Linux LiveCD

Posted by timothy on from the no-touching-the-hard-drive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Want to assess security vulnerabilities on your Linux system without lengthy installation and configuration efforts? This article introduce four packages -- Auditor, Whoppix, Knoppix-STD, and PHLAK -- that bring you that ability through the magic of LiveCD. These four LiveCD offerings specialize in nailing down vulnerabilities."

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  1. Re:Pen tests. by UnapprovedThought · · Score: 2, Funny

    True, but you have to take into account that some of these tools are getting smarter and smarter every time.

    I just ran Auditor on my system the other day, and while it didn't find any problems with my firewall, it was able to:

    • locate all of the pictures of lena.jpeg that some people in the office had downloaded
    • accurately guess that Liz in the next cubicle is the office's biggest security problem
    • complain that some office desktops had particularly drab background images

    So, when I clicked "yes" when it asked me if I wanted to correct the situation, it simply moved the offending pictures to Liz' desktop. Three birds...

  2. They sound like... by CaptainPotato · · Score: 2, Funny

    the latest sexually-transmitted diseases. Well, not Auditor perhaps, but the others...Whoppix, Knoppix-STD, and PHLAK. hate to think what happens when one catches Phlak... probably results in something that causes people to start sniffing your packets. ;)

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