PHLAK
PHLAK,
the Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit, is a derivative of Morphix. Due to Morphix's modular
nature, users can add their own personal tools/settings using mini-modules
instead of having to rip the entire CD apart. All of the development features
of Morphix are also available in PHLAK.
"We
have also added the educational aspect to PHLAK. Users can browse documentation
to learn about security and how to use tools," explains Shawn Hawkins,
co-developer and Webmaster of PHLAK. The documents under /usr/share/doc
take about 118 MB of space. There's information on various security tools,
grouped into 13 categories that include analysis, auditing, scanning, and
tunneling. There's also information on buffer overflows, firewalls, intrusion
detection, and lots more. "Another thing we added back with 0.2-1 was XPde, which we dubbed 'sneaky.' We call it sneaky for the
obvious reason (hacked with a disguised Linux distro).
Of course we also add our own personal touch, the overall theme, extra tools,
etc.," says Hawkins.
The
currently-under-development version 0.3 has the new Morphix
base and the 2.6 kernel. Hawkins also promises better wireless support, Morphix's new hard drive installer, more documentation, and
new security tools.
Hawkins
also talks about including a new filesystem in future
PHLAK releases, called unionfs, that will allow users who boot from the CD to write to the
filesystem. This won't save their information to the
CD, but it will allow apt-get upgrade to work, nessus
plugins update, and anything else that would require
write access to the filesystem.
Figure
4. Documentation in
PHLAK
Reference:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-livecdsec/