Auditing with BackTrack2

We all know there are all kind of penetration testing, sniffers, cracker, scanners, dictionary attack, tunneling, spoofing and exploit archive softwares.. Only problem is those are all over the web not in one convenient location. There are sites like insecure which rate those softwares and keep a record of them. Even though configuring all of them could be really a pain in the a**. You might get lots of dependency problems, missing libraries, version problems and not to mention your own mistakes. So when you add up all those you need to have helluva lot of will power to configure an OS with all those auditing softwares. Even after all those trouble its a hard installation.. not a mobile one.
What if we can have a OS with all those softwares in a LiveCD.. Which work right out of the box.. Which Identify all your new fancy hardware.. Which detect all available network and connect to an open network.. Sounds great ya.. Well we have one like that. Its call BackTrack2.
It worked perfectly well with my Dell D820.. and it had no trouble identifying dell wireless card 1390 but I'm not sure how it'll work with new wireless card 1490.. Even Ubuntu fiesty didn't recognize the hardware and we had to use the Microsoft driver through ndiswrapper..
Booting up BackTrack2 was a very smooth process.. It had a Gentoo like booting process.. It comes with default password.. but I had few problems login due to some media errors.. So I burned new CD and booted it up.. This time it worked without any problems.
During the boot up it detected all the hardware in Dell D820 notebook.. So straight away I went for the business.. There are few ADSL connection around the location with wireless networks.. So I fired up Kismet, within few minutes It detected all the wireless networks with their names. Some of then have hidden their wireless name.. but it was worthless. As I expected all them had WEP.. Unfortunately those networks not that active.. If I had enough packets could have guess the WEP key without any problems.. This was just one example.. with BackTrack2 things you can do are endless...
Also I found this nice video about Backtrack2 in youtube. This was shared by UberShiznit.. I hope he won't mind me putting it in my blog. (excuse for those green patches)



So next time when you are looking for something to audit your network.. give a try to BackTrack2. I think its a handy piece of tool.