BackTrack 5 Codename ‘Revolution’ Released

BackTrack 5 (codenamed ‘REVOLUTION’) has now been released on May 10th 2011. BT5 is available in a number of various flavors depending upon your usage.

Hacker pwns police cruiser

As a penetration tester hired to pierce the digital fortresses of Fortune 1000 casinos, banks and energy companies, Kevin Finisterre has hacked electronic cash boxes, geologic-survey equipment, and on more than one occasion, a client’s heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system. But one of his most unusual hacks came during a recent assignment testing the security […]