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Sectoo Linux

Up-To-Date and Easy-To-Use set of security tools!

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

12th of August 2006, 09:35 GMT

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Sectoo Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution aimed to help all sort of people with tasks related to network security. It is based on Gentoo Linux and you will be able to achieve tasks such as port scanning, packet sniffing, OS fingerprinting, and intrusion detection.

Sectoo Linux contains many security, network analyzer tools like:

￭ aimsniff
￭ arpwatch
￭ ettercap
￭ hydra
￭ metasploit
￭ nagios
￭ nessus
￭ nmap
￭ scanssh
￭ snort
￭ tcpdump
￭ traceroute
￭ wireshark

You can view the full list of tools here.

Sectoo's goals:

￭ Vulnerability Scanning: Sectoo Linux provides you base services such as port scanning using Nmap. You can then gather banner information, looking for versions of services installed, and discover some exploits using Nessus. You can also use this to test what your IDS can pick up and what it can't.
￭ Network Analysis: Using a standard sniffer like TCPDump or Ethereal/Wireshark, you can see what's going through a network in terms of protocols and content. And by using tools like p0f, you can achieve passive OS fingerprinting like never before!
￭ Security Research: Want to learn how to achieve this or that type of attack? How to conduct other types of spoofing attacks? Using Sectoo and reading the manpages for the tools (you'll certainly have to search what tool & what manpage!), you'll learn how. But be warned: Use of these tools in production environments is highly discouraged and could get you fired, or arrested in some countries.
￭ Secure Connectivity: Sectoo Linux includes OpenSSH, for securely administrating remote systems...

Here is the screenshot tour of Sectoo Linux:

Download Sectoo Linux now from Softpedia.

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Comment #1 by: Ley on 15 Aug 2006, 00:34 GMT	reply to this comment
This project is for the moment at his very beginning, the Pre-Alpha version of the distro has just been released

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