Backtrack 4 Beta Released



The long awaited next beta release of Backtrack is out. Intially it was only released at the Shmoo Convention and got a great response. The iso and Vmware images are available for download.

* Iso Image with md5 and sha512sum
* Vmware Image with md5 and sha512sum

New Features

* Kernel 2.6.28.1 with better hardware support.
* Native support for Pico e12 and e16 cards is now fully functional, making BackTrack the first pentesting distro to fully utilize these awesome tiny machines.
* Support for PXE Boot - Boot BackTrack over the network with PXE supported cards!
* SAINT EXPLOIT - kindly provided by SAINT corporation for our users with a limited number of free IPs.
* MALTEGO - The guys over at Paterva did outstanding work with Maltego 2.0.2 - which is featured in BackTrack as a community edition.
* The latest mac80211 wireless injection patches are applied, with several custom patches for rtl8187 injection speed enhancements. Wireless injection support has never been so broad and functional.
* Unicornscan - Fully functional with postgress logging support and a web front end.
* RFID support
* Pyrit CUDA support…
* New and updated tools - the list is endless!


For more info checkout its official blog http://backtrack4.blogspot.com

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