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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. Pretty cool by zappepcs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting that this round up of security tools is on an IBM website... well, sort of. Wonder if they will be made redundant by Vista?

    Sorry, can't help but be happy to see people in the real world, doing valuable things, getting help from large companies, and doing them before and better than MS. The world of computing is changing and MS is already irrelevant... we just don't realize it fully yet.

    Personally, I'll be checking out these four tools.

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  2. Audiwhax by zbuffered · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Auditor and Whax (formerly Whoppix) are merging.

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