Lets walk through BackTrack

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In one of my last article, I showed you how to How to install BackTrack on Your system. In this tutorial, I will walk you through BackTrack, giving you a tour of the most salient (important) features of Backtrack.

As you can see in the screenshot above, I've installed the most recent version of BackTrack, version 5 release 3 (generally referred to BackTrack 5r3). My install is the 64-bit version with the KDE interface, but the GNOME interface works just as well and has all the same features.

The BackTrack Menu

Similar to Windows start button, we have a button with the BackTrack icon in the lower left-hand corner along the lower panel.

When you click on it, it opens up a collection of Multy-nested menus just like Windows. Let’s go through each of them from bottom to top.

Level Menu

The first menu we come to is titled "Leave." This is where we would go when we want to shutdown BackTrack.

The sub-menus here are all self-explanatory.

End Session - To Shut down the system
Lock Screen - Lock menu (Same as in windows)
Start a parallel session as a different user (Switch user)

Run Command

The second menu we come to is titled "run Command" This is will help to open the Terminal (Command prompt )

Wine

We're going to skip over a few menu choices as they are not so important.

The next thing in the list is Wine. It is help to run the windows application in Linux (We are going to discuss it in another post )

Utilities Menu

The next item is "Utilities."

Akonaditray (a personal information manager)
Klipper (a clipboard tool)
KWrite (text editor similar to notepad),
Terminator (a way of managing multiple terminals)
WBarConf (a tool for managing your KDE bars)

The system Menu

The next menu we'll look at is titled "System," which contains applications. When we hover over System we see Airoscript-ng and Airoscript-ng GTK. These are scripts for using Aircrack-ng to hack wireless.( We are going to discuss about these in another post So keep touch with us )

We also see

Dolphin (a file manager similar to Windows Explorer)
EtherApe (a graphical network model)
Htop (a process viewer)
KinfoCenter (an information center about your computer, i.e. CPU, memory, DMA, etc)

Below KinfoCenter we find probably the most important utility in any Linux system:

Konsole (a terminal)

Any true hacker MUST become familiar with the terminal. For the remaining tools, we have:

KpackageKit (download packages)
KRandRTray (resizing windows)
System Monitor (self-explanatory)

The Internet Menu

Now we're going to jump up to the "Internet" menu and we can see EtherApe appears here again (it was also under "System").

Also, there's:

Firefox (web browser)
Konqueror (web browser)
Wicd (for connecting to Wi-Fi)
Zenmap (the network reconnaissance tool nmap overlaid with a nice GUI).

BackTrack

At the very top of the menu, we find the "BackTrack" menu! This is where we'll be spending most of our time as hackers. The BackTrack menu has shortcuts to the hundreds of hacking tools in BackTrack.

These tools are too numerous to list here, but as you can see BackTrack classifies them into the following:

Information Gathering
Vulnerability Assessment
Exploitation tools
Privilege Escalation
Maintaining Access
Reverse Engineering
RFID Tools
Stress Testing
Forensics
Reporting Tools
Services
Miscellaneous

Over the next several posts we'll examine each of these set of tools.

So that's the quick and dirty tour of BackTrack, my friends. In my coming posts, I'll show you how to use many of the best hacking tools in BackTrack, so keep coming back !

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