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Diamond Linux-TT
Diamond Linux-TT is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's Stable branch. The distribution features the KDE Plasma desktop with an eye toward making the interface look more familiar to former Windows users.
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| 2011-08-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 2.15.0 |
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Paul Blankenbaker has announced the release of Network Security Toolkit (NST) 2.15.0, a Fedora-based live DVD featuring a collection of best-of-breed open-source network security applications: "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release, version 2.15.0. This release is based on Fedora 15 using Linux kernel 2.6.40, re-based from latest Linux kernel 3.0. Here are some of the highlights for this release: developed a new interactive dynamic SVG/AJAX enabled network interface bandwidth monitor application that is integrated into the NST WUI for monitoring pseudo real-time network bandwidth rates; added NST RPM packages and NST WUI integration for the Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner (OpenVAS) and Greenbone security tools; added an NST RPM package for IPv6 network security investigation...." Continue reading the release announcement for a complete list of improvements. Download: nst-2.15.0-2515.i686.iso (1,328MB, MD5).
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| Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live disc based on the Fedora distribution. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed open source network security applications and should run on most x86 platforms. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of open source network security tools. What we find rather fascinating with NST is that we can transform most x86_64 systems into a system designed for network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, network packet generation, wireless network monitoring, a virtual system service server, or a sophisticated network/host scanner.
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| 2023-07-23 |
Distribution Release: NST 38-13644 |
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Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live disc based on the Fedora distribution. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed open source network security applications. The distribution's latest release is based on Fedora 38. The release announcement appears on the project's home page: "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release NST 38 SVN:13644. This release is based on Fedora 38 using Linux kernel 6.3.12. This release brings the NST distribution on par with Fedora 38. This is mostly a maintenance release with improved NST WUI functionality. Below is a summary of the feature improvements included in this release: Access to the Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner (OpenVAS) and Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) has been refactored to run as a docker container providing the full-featured vulnerability scanner. The latest Greenbone Community Edition container is used. An acceleration overlay and control was added to the geolocation of Dash Cam videos. NST Map Data Layer - Dash Cam Track With Acceleration Overlay. The NST WUI ARP Scan has been enhanced to support the configured Name Service (NS) switch hosts resolver." Download (MD5): nst-38-13644.x86_64.iso (4,548MB, pkglist). |
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| 2022-07-11 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 36-13232 |
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Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live disc based on the Fedora distribution. The distribution's latest release updates networking tools, places OpenVAS in a podman container, and retires the WUI sidebar navigation menu. "Access to the Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner (OpenVAS) and Greenbone Vulnerability Management (Greenbone GVM) has been refactored to run as a podman container providing the full-featured vulnerability scanner. See the graphic below: NST WUI page for the OpenVAS / GVM scanner. Added a Round Trip Time (RTT) column to the NST WUI ARP Scan application. In addition, most options are now supported and better documentation has been provided. An article on NST WUI ARP Scan usage can be found here. Now supporting underscore scoped DNS Node Leaf Attribute Names in the NST WUI dig application (e.g. _spf.google.com). Added a NIC selection control to the embedded IPv4, IPv6 and Host Name widget. The legacy NST WUI sidebar navigation menu has been retired." The full list of changes can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5): nst-36-13232.x86_64.iso (4,187MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-06-17 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 34-12743 |
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Ron Henderson has announced the release of Network Security Toolkit (NST) 34-12743, a new version of the project's Fedora-based live ISO image and USB Flash drive designed to provide an easy access to best-of-breed, open-source network security applications: "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release - NST 34 SVN:12743. This release is based on Fedora 34 using Linux kernel 5.12.10. This release brings the NST distribution on par with Fedora 34. This is mostly a maintenance release with improved NST WUI functionality. Below is a summary of new tools and feature improvements included in this release: the lft (Layer-4 Traceroute) utility has been integrated into the NST WUI; the NST WUI Ntopng implementation now supports the Ntopng REST API; the results from using the fast directory scanner - dirble can now be displayed in tabular format on its corresponding NST WUI page; added a new NST script, etherapedump, that dumps network resources from an Etherape XML export; automatic NST WUI page refresh to the NST Start Page if the NST system is rebooted from the NST WUI...." Visit the distribution's home page to read the full release announcement. Download (MD5): nst-34-12743.x86_64.iso (4,594MB, pkglist). |
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| 2020-06-07 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 32-11992 |
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Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live CD based on the Fedora distribution. The project's latest release is based on Fedora 32 and includes a number of new tools and features for analyzing network traffic. "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release: NST 32 SVN:11992. This release is based on Fedora 32 using Linux kernel 5.6.15. This release brings the NST distribution on par with Fedora 32. Here are some of the highlights and new tools added for this release: A new NST WUI page for displaying Wireshark tshark Statistics Conversations has been developed - see the example: tshark Statistics Conversations page shown below. This page focuses on displaying network conversations between two specific endpoints in tabular format and results can be further analyzed with the NST Network Tools Widgets. One can choose a Conversation Type and Display filter to isolate traffic of interest. The table output also contains the ability to create stream display filters for packet capture decode analysis. Many other actions and features can be found on this page. Added a new NST WUI page for the next generation the Kismet Wireless Surveillance application." Further details can be found on the project's home page. Download (MD5): nst-32-11992.x86_64.iso (3,896MB, pkglist). |
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| 2019-07-16 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 30-11210 |
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Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live CD based on the Fedora distribution. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed open source network security applications. The project's latest release is based on Fedora 30 and offers a number of enhancements. "Here are some of the highlights for this release: The NST WUI now supports geolocation of photos or videos that have embedded geotagged information. This provides the security professional with potential location and speed discovery when conducting a forensic analysis. The combination of using the ExifTool utility for metadata extraction with the NST Mapping Tools provides this geolocation capability. The NST WUI Directory Browser page has been enhanced to facilitate the entry point for photo and video geolocation. At first, if many images appear to overlap at the same location on the Google Map, a thumbnail representation will be presented. One can then zoom in to provide better image location separation to reveal individual photo or video detail. If a video image can be geolocated (e.g., One generated by a Garmin Dash Cam 55), one can view and control the video with a new NST Map Data Layer Editor tool." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): nst-30-11210.x86_64.iso (3,672MB, pkglist). |
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| 2018-07-02 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 28-10234 |
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Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live disc based on the Fedora distribution. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed open source network security applications. The project has released NST 28-10234 which is based on Fedora 28. The new version includes Bluetooth improvements and proactive security testing and scanning tools. "Here are some of the highlights and new tools added for this release: Sguil - The Analyst Console for Network Security Monitoring has been integrated into NST for access and display of realtime IDS events and raw packet captures. A new NST WUI page for Snort IDS Management is shown below with Sguil access. The new web-based Sguil RealTime Console is also depicted below using Proofpoint ET (Emerging Threats) Pro Rulesets. A new Bluetooth Scan page was added to the NST WUI to help find nearby discoverable Bluetooth and BLE devices. You can use the Bluetooth Scan page under the Network|Wireless and Security|Active Scanners menus. The high-speed network authentication cracking tool Ncrack is used to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords is now part of the NST distribution." More information on this release can be found on the project's home page. Download (MD5): nst-28-10234.x86_64.iso (3,440MB, pkglist). |
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| 2017-10-08 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 26-9267 |
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Ron Henderson has announced the availability of a new version of the Network Security Toolkit (NST) distribution. NST is a bootable, live CD based on Fedora. The toolkit provides easy access to open source network security applications. The latest version, NST 26-9267, is based on Fedora 26 and includes several new features. "The Ntopng Hosts page has been enhanced for the geolocation of top active traffic flow connections. The Map below depicts top flow connections emanating from a site in Albany, N.Y. to web and compute cloud services data centres located in Ashburn, Va. (Amazon - AWS) and Cambridge, Ma. (Akamai - Cloud Delivery Platform). A host marker spreading feature allows one to expose flows to load balancing servers at those locations. The combination of host marker spreading with the superimposition of flows is similar to the Etherape application but with the enhancement of geolocation. Flows can be filtered for fine-grained analysis. Each host marker has an associated information window pop-up that includes nDPI - Ntop Deep Packet Inspection protocol detection, traffic flow rates and the accumulated data sent and received totals." More information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): nst-26-9267.x86_64.iso (3,303MB, pkglist). |
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| 2016-07-04 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 24-7977 |
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Ron Henderson has announced the release of Network Security Toolkit (NST) 24-7977, the latest version of the project's Fedora-based distribution featuring a large collection of network security applications: "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release - 'NST 24 SVN:7977'. This release is based on Fedora 24 using Linux Kernel 4.6.3. This release brings the NST distribution on par with Fedora 24. Here are some of the highlights for this release: NST will now be delivered as a 64-bit image only, 32 bit images have been retired; a new multi-traceroute (MTR) networking tool has been developed for NST 24, this tool provides an interactive traceroute visual using Scapy; a new interactive 3D pie chart depicting the results from a ntop Deep Packet Inspection (nDPI) is now an integral part of the NST WUI Network Packet Capture protocol decode; added the SSLyze project for analyzing a server's SSL configuration to the NST Networking Tools Widget; a darkness/lightness Google Map control has been added the NST Map Tools...." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download (MD5): nst-24-7977.x86_64.iso (2,680MB, pkglist). |
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| 2015-10-02 |
Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 22-7248 |
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Ron Henderson has announced the release of a new version of the Network Security Toolkit (NST) distribution. The latest release, NST 22-7248, includes a new geolocation map with the ability to plot IPv4 network addresses on the map. This release also features a new systemd management widget and the NST web service now runs on non-standard ports, freeing up the standard network ports for serving user created websites. "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release: NST 22 SVN:7248. This release is based on Fedora 22 using Linux kernel 4.1.7. This release brings the NST distribution on par with Fedora 22. Here are some of the highlights for this release: Development of a new geolocation map presentation using technology from the WebGL Globe project. This allows for gelocated IPv4 addresses to be rendered on a globe within your browser using WebGL. See the live demo on the NST Wiki site: NST WebGL (view Globe). One can now populate the NST Networking Tools Widgets with results from many of the NST integrated applications...." Additional information on NST 22-7248 can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): nst-22-7248.i686.iso (2,291MB, pkglist). |
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