First Look: Protech - Ubuntu Feisty Security Distro

Protech is a Ubuntu Feisty based Linux distribution made for security professionals and programmers: "Hopefully it will be a turnaround for those more familiarized with Ubuntu or Debian. Protech is based on Ubuntu and is to be released with many features that make it a true delight to use. Protech is made to be fast, simple and reliable. We are working on the final tweaks and hope you enjoy using it as much we enjoyed making it."

Protech team will release the first release candidate in a couple of days and the final (1.0) version is scheduled for release in April, along with the Ubuntu Feisty's final version.

After a quick look over some screenshots from Protech's website, I've decided to take this first beta release for a spin. The first impression it gave me was that it looks very professional; it looks wonderful (look at the screenshots at the end of the article) and has a lot of network/security related tools. Let's have a look inside so we know what kind of applications we're dealing with here:

Cisco Tools:

- Asleap - Cisco Exploiter - Yersinia

Database Tools:

- HackerStorm - Blind SQL Injection - HTTP SQL Bruteforce - Metacoretex - SQL Inject

Oracle Tools:

- Metacoretex - OAT

Aquiring Tools:

- DCFLDD - DD - DD_Rescue

Enumeration Tools:

- DNSWalk - DNS Enum - Host - Finger Google - Google Mail Enum - Gooscan - Google Search - NBTScan - Samba Enum - Relay Scanner - SMTP Vrfy - SNMP Enum - Snmpwalk - Senmpset - Snmpget - ISR Forms - L1st URLs - Paros Proxy

Exploits:

- Metasploit Framework - Milw0rm - Expoilt Tree

Forensics Tools:

- Autopsy - Foremost

Fuzzers:

- Bed - Pirana - Clfuzz

Password Attacks:

- RainbowCrack - Hash Collision - John the Ripper - Ophcrack - Samdump2 - THC PPTP - Hydra

Scanners:

- Nessus - Nikto - Amap - Nmap - Onesixtyone - IKE Scan - PSK crack

Sniffers:

- Driftnet - Dsniff - Wireshark - Ettercap - Mailsnarf - SSHMITM - SSHow - URLsnarf - Filesnarf - Msgsnarf