Assess System Security with a Linux LiveCD

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."

Comments

Pretty cool

[zappepcs]

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.

Audiwhax

[zbuffered]

Auditor and Whax (formerly Whoppix) are merging.

Re:Pen tests.

[UnapprovedThought]

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...

They sound like...

[CaptainPotato]

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. ;)