BackTrack

BackTrack is a distribution based off of what used to be WHAX and Auditor . It is a full size distro built off of SLAX.
BackTrack Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Damn Vulnerable Linux ( DVL )

"Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is a Linux-based tool for IT-Security. It was initiated for training tasks during university lessons by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and S²e - Secure Software Engineering in cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team." - DamnVulnerableLinux.org
Damn Vulnerable Linux ( DVL ) Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

DEFT

DEFT (acronym of "Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customized distribution of the Kubuntu live Linux CD. It is a very easy to use system that includes an excellent hardware detection and the best open source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics. -Deft.yourside.it
DEFT Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

FCCU

The Gnu/Linux boot CD-Rom is made by the Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit (FCCU)
It's based on the KNOPPIX Live CD version 4.02 by Klaus Knopper.
The main purpose of the CD : help the forensic analyze of computers
All scripts made by the FCCU begin with the "fccu" prefix -lnx4n6.be
FCCU Main | Download | Status: Active

Frenzy

"Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis. Size of ISO-image is 200 MBytes (3" CD)"
-http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/
Frenzy Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

grml

"grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment." -http://grml.org/
grml Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Hakin9

"a bootable distribution containing all the tools and materials needed for practising methods and techniques described in the hackin9 magazine"
-http://www.hakin9.org/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live-
Hakin9 Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Helix

"Helix is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Helix is more than just a bootable live CD. You can still boot into a customized Linux environment that includes customized linux kernels, excellent hardware detection and many applications dedicated to Incident Response and Forensics."
-http://www.e-fense.com/helix/-
Helix Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

HeX

HeX is a live security distribution that focuses on security monitoring and forensics.
HeX Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

KCPentrix

" The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators" - KCPentrix.com
KCPentrix Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Knoppix-NSM

"knoppix-nsm is dedicated to providing a framework for individuals wanting to learn about Network Security Monitoring or who want to qucikly and reliably deploy NSM in their network. Our goal is to provide an introduction to NSM and a distribution that can be used as a launch pad to bigger things." -www.securixlive.com
Knoppix-NSM Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Network Security Toolkit ( NST )

"This bootable ISO live CD is based on Fedora. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms." -networksecuritytoolkit.org
Network Security Toolkit ( NST ) Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

nUbuntu

"The main goal of nUbuntu is to create a distribution which is derived from the Ubuntu distribution, and add packages related to security testing, and remove unneeded packages, such as Gnome, Openoffice.org, and Evolution." - nubuntu.org
nUbuntu Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Ophcrack

"The ophcrack LiveCD contains a small linux system (SLAX6), ophcrack for linux and rainbow tables for alphanumerical passwords.The liveCD cracks passwords automatically, no installation necessary, no admin password necessary (as long as you can boot from CD). Windows Vista SAM can also be cracked." -Ophcrack.sourceforge.net
Ophcrack Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

OSWA Assistant

"The OSWA-Assistant™ is a self-contained, freely downloadable, wireless-auditing toolkit for both IT-security professionals and End-users alike."--http://oswa-assistant.securitystartshere.org/
OSWA Assistant Main | Download | Status: Active

OWASP Labrat

"The OWASP Live CD (LabRat) is a bootable CD akin to knoppix but dedicated to Application Security. It shall serve as a vehicle and distrubition medium for OWASP tools and guides." -OWASP.org
OWASP Labrat Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Protech

Protech is a specially designed Linux distribution for security technicians and programmers.
It's imcomparable usability and stability makes this a unique product. -Techm4sters
Protech Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Active

Russix

Russix is a Slax based Wireless Live Linux. It has been designed to be light (circa 230Mb) and dedicated purely to wireless auditing. It is not a script kiddy phishing tool and as such, while it will allow you to break a WEP key in 6 key strokes and conduct an "Evil Tiny Twin" attack in less than 5, it will not let you become the latest version of Barclays Bank.

Russix Main | Download | Status: Active

Stagos FSE

"Stagos FSE aims to be a computer forensic framework based on FLOSS operating system. Builds from Ubuntu, it has many feature to do forensics stuff. It supports read variant filesystem, include ntfs. It also support read some forensic imaging file from another forensic software such like ENCASE." -linuxforums.org
Stagos FSE Main | Download | Status: Active

Arudius

Arudius is a Linux live CD with tools that try to address the network security aspect (penetration testing and vulnerability analysis) of information assurance. It is based on Slackware (Zenwalk) for i386 systems and targets the information security audience.
Arudius Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Auditor

"The Auditor security collection is a Live-System based on KNOPPIX. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes. Independent of the hardware in use, the Auditor security collection offers a standardised working environment, so that the build-up of know-how and remote support is made easier." - http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_main-
Auditor Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

FIRE

"FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment."
-http://fire.dmzs.com-
FIRE Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

INSERT

"INSERT is a complete, bootable linux system. It comes with a graphical user interface running the fluxbox window manager while still being sufficiently small to fit on a credit card-sized CD-ROM."
-http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html-
INSERT Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Knoppix-STD

"STD is a Linux-based Security Tool. Actually, it is a collection of hundreds if not thousands of open source security tools. It's a Live Linux Distro, which means it runs from a bootable CD in memory without changing the native operating system of the host computer." - http://www.knoppix-std.org/-
Knoppix-STD Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Local Area Security ( LAS )

Local Area Security ( LAS ) Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

NavynOS

"Navyn OS is a gnu/linux distribution based on Gentoo. Gentoo isn't a typical distribution like Debian or Slackware, it doesn't even have an installer, it is similar to making your own distribution. The main part of Gentoo is portage, a set of scripts for installing and removing programs." -http://navynos.linux.pl/
NavynOS Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Operator

"Operator is a complete Linux (Debian) distribution that runs from a single bootable CD and runs entirely in RAM." - www.ussysadmin.com/operator/

Operator Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Pentoo

"Pentoo is a penetration testing LiveCD distribution based on Gentoo. It features a lot of tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities."
-http://www.pentoo.ch/-PENTOO-.html-
Pentoo Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

PHLAK

"PHLAK is a modular live security Linux distribution (a.k.a LiveCD). PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox and XFCE4), many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a derivative of Morphix, created by Alex de Landgraaf." - http://www.phlak.org/modules/news/-
PHLAK Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

PLAC

"PLAC is a business card sized bootable cdrom running linux. It has network auditing, disk recovery, and forensic analysis tools. ISO will be avialable and scripts to roll you own cd."
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/plac/-
PLAC Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Plan-B

"Plan-B is a bootable Linux environment without the need for a hard drive, it runs entirely in ram or from the cd, based on a basic, stripped installation of Red Hat Linux and the fundamental workings of the SuperRescue CD" -http://www.projectplanb.org/

Plan-B Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

SENTINIX

"SENTINIX is a GNU/Linux distribution designed for monitoring, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, statistics/graphing and anti-spam. It's completely free; free to use, free to modify and free to distribute. SENTINIX includes the following software, installed and pre-configured; Nagios, Nagat, Snort, SnortCenter, ACID, Cacti, RRDTool, Nessus, Postfix, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, openMosix, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python and lots more." -http://sentinix.tigerteam.se/
SENTINIX Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

SNARL

snarl is a bootable forensics ISO based on FreeBSD and using @stake's autopsy and task as well as scmoo's list of known good checksums. -snarl.eecue.com
SNARL Main | Download | Status: Inactive

Talos

"Talos is a security LiveCD, based on SLAX 5.1.0 with over 90 security tools preinstalled. It runs directly from the CD without the need to install on the harddisk. Talos is currently on BETA version 0.1 and its available to download." -ISafe.gr
Talos Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

ThePacketMaster

ThePacketMaster - Mission-Specific Live-CD Linux Distributions - thepacketmaster.com
ThePacketMaster Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Trinux

Minimal ramdisk linux distribution meant for network monitoring.
Trinux Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

WarLinux

A linux distribution for WarDrivers.
WarLinux Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

WHAX

Updated project from Whoppix. Currently discontinued and merged with BackTrack.
WHAX Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

Whoppix

"Whoppix is a stand-alone penetration-testing live CD based on KNOPPIX. With the latest tools and exploits, it is a must for every penetration tester and security auditor. Whoppix includes several exploit archives, such as Securityfocus, Packetstorm, SecurityForest and Milw0rm, as well as a wide variety of updated security tools." -Distrowatch
Whoppix Main | Discuss | Download | Status: Inactive

BackTrack BackTrack is a distribution based off of what used to be WHAX and Auditor . It is a full size distro built off of SLAX. BackTrack Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Damn Vulnerable Linux ( DVL ) "Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is a Linux-based tool for IT-Security. It was initiated for training tasks during university lessons by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and S²e - Secure Software Engineering in cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team." - DamnVulnerableLinux.org Damn Vulnerable Linux ( DVL ) Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
DEFT DEFT (acronym of "Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customized distribution of the Kubuntu live Linux CD. It is a very easy to use system that includes an excellent hardware detection and the best open source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics. -Deft.yourside.it DEFT Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
FCCU The Gnu/Linux boot CD-Rom is made by the Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit (FCCU) It's based on the KNOPPIX Live CD version 4.02 by Klaus Knopper. The main purpose of the CD : help the forensic analyze of computers All scripts made by the FCCU begin with the "fccu" prefix -lnx4n6.be FCCU Main \| Download \| Status: Active
Frenzy "Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis. Size of ISO-image is 200 MBytes (3" CD)" -http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/ Frenzy Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
grml "grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment." -http://grml.org/ grml Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Hakin9 "a bootable distribution containing all the tools and materials needed for practising methods and techniques described in the hackin9 magazine" -http://www.hakin9.org/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live- Hakin9 Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Helix "Helix is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Helix is more than just a bootable live CD. You can still boot into a customized Linux environment that includes customized linux kernels, excellent hardware detection and many applications dedicated to Incident Response and Forensics." -http://www.e-fense.com/helix/- Helix Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
HeX HeX is a live security distribution that focuses on security monitoring and forensics. HeX Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
KCPentrix " The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators" - KCPentrix.com KCPentrix Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Knoppix-NSM "knoppix-nsm is dedicated to providing a framework for individuals wanting to learn about Network Security Monitoring or who want to qucikly and reliably deploy NSM in their network. Our goal is to provide an introduction to NSM and a distribution that can be used as a launch pad to bigger things." -www.securixlive.com Knoppix-NSM Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Network Security Toolkit ( NST ) "This bootable ISO live CD is based on Fedora. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms." -networksecuritytoolkit.org Network Security Toolkit ( NST ) Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
nUbuntu "The main goal of nUbuntu is to create a distribution which is derived from the Ubuntu distribution, and add packages related to security testing, and remove unneeded packages, such as Gnome, Openoffice.org, and Evolution." - nubuntu.org nUbuntu Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Ophcrack "The ophcrack LiveCD contains a small linux system (SLAX6), ophcrack for linux and rainbow tables for alphanumerical passwords.The liveCD cracks passwords automatically, no installation necessary, no admin password necessary (as long as you can boot from CD). Windows Vista SAM can also be cracked." -Ophcrack.sourceforge.net Ophcrack Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
OSWA Assistant "The OSWA-Assistant™ is a self-contained, freely downloadable, wireless-auditing toolkit for both IT-security professionals and End-users alike."--http://oswa-assistant.securitystartshere.org/ OSWA Assistant Main \| Download \| Status: Active
OWASP Labrat "The OWASP Live CD (LabRat) is a bootable CD akin to knoppix but dedicated to Application Security. It shall serve as a vehicle and distrubition medium for OWASP tools and guides." -OWASP.org OWASP Labrat Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Protech Protech is a specially designed Linux distribution for security technicians and programmers. It's imcomparable usability and stability makes this a unique product. -Techm4sters Protech Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Active
Russix Russix is a Slax based Wireless Live Linux. It has been designed to be light (circa 230Mb) and dedicated purely to wireless auditing. It is not a script kiddy phishing tool and as such, while it will allow you to break a WEP key in 6 key strokes and conduct an "Evil Tiny Twin" attack in less than 5, it will not let you become the latest version of Barclays Bank. Russix Main \| Download \| Status: Active
Stagos FSE "Stagos FSE aims to be a computer forensic framework based on FLOSS operating system. Builds from Ubuntu, it has many feature to do forensics stuff. It supports read variant filesystem, include ntfs. It also support read some forensic imaging file from another forensic software such like ENCASE." -linuxforums.org Stagos FSE Main \| Download \| Status: Active
Arudius Arudius is a Linux live CD with tools that try to address the network security aspect (penetration testing and vulnerability analysis) of information assurance. It is based on Slackware (Zenwalk) for i386 systems and targets the information security audience. Arudius Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Auditor "The Auditor security collection is a Live-System based on KNOPPIX. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes. Independent of the hardware in use, the Auditor security collection offers a standardised working environment, so that the build-up of know-how and remote support is made easier." - http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_main- Auditor Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
FIRE "FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment." -http://fire.dmzs.com- FIRE Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
INSERT "INSERT is a complete, bootable linux system. It comes with a graphical user interface running the fluxbox window manager while still being sufficiently small to fit on a credit card-sized CD-ROM." -http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html- INSERT Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Knoppix-STD "STD is a Linux-based Security Tool. Actually, it is a collection of hundreds if not thousands of open source security tools. It's a Live Linux Distro, which means it runs from a bootable CD in memory without changing the native operating system of the host computer." - http://www.knoppix-std.org/- Knoppix-STD Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Local Area Security ( LAS ) Local Area Security ( LAS ) Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
NavynOS "Navyn OS is a gnu/linux distribution based on Gentoo. Gentoo isn't a typical distribution like Debian or Slackware, it doesn't even have an installer, it is similar to making your own distribution. The main part of Gentoo is portage, a set of scripts for installing and removing programs." -http://navynos.linux.pl/ NavynOS Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Operator "Operator is a complete Linux (Debian) distribution that runs from a single bootable CD and runs entirely in RAM." - www.ussysadmin.com/operator/ Operator Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Pentoo "Pentoo is a penetration testing LiveCD distribution based on Gentoo. It features a lot of tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities." -http://www.pentoo.ch/-PENTOO-.html- Pentoo Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
PHLAK "PHLAK is a modular live security Linux distribution (a.k.a LiveCD). PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox and XFCE4), many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a derivative of Morphix, created by Alex de Landgraaf." - http://www.phlak.org/modules/news/- PHLAK Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
PLAC "PLAC is a business card sized bootable cdrom running linux. It has network auditing, disk recovery, and forensic analysis tools. ISO will be avialable and scripts to roll you own cd." -http://sourceforge.net/projects/plac/- PLAC Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Plan-B "Plan-B is a bootable Linux environment without the need for a hard drive, it runs entirely in ram or from the cd, based on a basic, stripped installation of Red Hat Linux and the fundamental workings of the SuperRescue CD" -http://www.projectplanb.org/ Plan-B Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
SENTINIX "SENTINIX is a GNU/Linux distribution designed for monitoring, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, statistics/graphing and anti-spam. It's completely free; free to use, free to modify and free to distribute. SENTINIX includes the following software, installed and pre-configured; Nagios, Nagat, Snort, SnortCenter, ACID, Cacti, RRDTool, Nessus, Postfix, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, openMosix, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python and lots more." -http://sentinix.tigerteam.se/ SENTINIX Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
SNARL snarl is a bootable forensics ISO based on FreeBSD and using @stake's autopsy and task as well as scmoo's list of known good checksums. -snarl.eecue.com SNARL Main \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Talos "Talos is a security LiveCD, based on SLAX 5.1.0 with over 90 security tools preinstalled. It runs directly from the CD without the need to install on the harddisk. Talos is currently on BETA version 0.1 and its available to download." -ISafe.gr Talos Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
ThePacketMaster ThePacketMaster - Mission-Specific Live-CD Linux Distributions - thepacketmaster.com ThePacketMaster Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Trinux Minimal ramdisk linux distribution meant for network monitoring. Trinux Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
WarLinux A linux distribution for WarDrivers. WarLinux Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
WHAX Updated project from Whoppix. Currently discontinued and merged with BackTrack. WHAX Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive
Whoppix "Whoppix is a stand-alone penetration-testing live CD based on KNOPPIX. With the latest tools and exploits, it is a must for every penetration tester and security auditor. Whoppix includes several exploit archives, such as Securityfocus, Packetstorm, SecurityForest and Milw0rm, as well as a wide variety of updated security tools." -Distrowatch Whoppix Main \| Discuss \| Download \| Status: Inactive