Release of Live Distribution NST 40 (Network Security Toolkit) has been announced, intended for network security analysis and monitoring operations. The size of the bootable ISO image (x86_64) is 5 GB. A special repository has been prepared for Fedora Linux users, allowing the installation of all developments created within the NST project into an already installed system. The distribution is based on Fedora and allows the installation of additional packages from external repositories compatible with Fedora Linux.
The distribution includes a large collection of applications related to network security (for example: Wireshark, NTop, Nessus, Snort, NMap, Kismet, TcpTrack, Etherape, nsttracroute, Ettercap, etc.). A special web interface has been prepared to manage the security assessment process and automate the invocation of various utilities, which also integrates a web frontend for the Wireshark network analyzer. The graphical environment of the distribution is based on FluxBox.
I den nya utgÄvan:
- The package base is synchronized with Fedora 40. Linux kernel 6.8 is being used.
- The applications included have been updated to the latest releases.
- The capabilities of the NST WUI web interface have been expanded.
- The Portainer application for managing docker containers has been included.
- The ability to run a docker container with Spiderfoot, an OSINT tool (open-source intelligence) to gather additional information about IP addresses, domain names, emails, and other data through analyzing more than 100 open data sources has been provided.
- Support for a docker container with the Metasploit toolkit for developing and launching exploits against external systems has been added.
KĂ€lla: opennet.ru
