

Get your brand new copy of BackTrack 4 R2 from our download page. We are also pleased to announce the beginning of a new BackTrack Wiki which covers many important features of BackTrack. Our most professional, tested and streamlined release ever.įor those wanting to upgrade an older release of BT4, an apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade should do the job.New BackTrack Wiki with better documentation and support.Updated old packages, added new ones, and removed obsolete ones.Metasploit rebuilt from scratch, MySQL db_drivers working out of the box.Revamped Fluxbox environment for the KDE challenged.All wireless Injection patches applied, maximum support for wireless attacks.We could go on for pages on saying how great the new version is, but we’ll cut to the chase, and give you the run down: Once that is done you can mount the volume and begin using it. We do that by clicking on the 'Create Volume'' option above and using the following screen.įollow the prompts and create a volume.

The next step is to create our encrypted volume. You should end up with a window like the following. To do so, either from the 'run' command option on the menu or from a terminal session execute truecrypt. Now it's time to setup up our TrueCrypt volume. Click on 'Install TrueCrypt' and follow the prompts. Tar zxvf Īt this point, you will have a gui install window with a couple options on it. Next execute the following commands from a terminal session in root's home directory: I used Firefox and saved the file to root's home directory. deb' option on the TrueCrypt download page. The following steps will get TrueCrypt installed and ready to be configured.įirst we need to download the install package. Installing TrueCrypt is almost as easy as setting up encrypted private directories. The following is performed with a windows manager active, e.g.You have already created a bootable Backtrack 4 thumb drive with persistent changes.Of course the downside is that the volume must be manually mounted each time or at least I haven't worked out how to automatically mount it yet. It also addresses the issue of file and directory names not being encrypted. I also found that TrueCrypt works great on Backtrack 4. In my previous post, we setup an encrypted private directory to address being able to keep the data from a pen test safe.
