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Katana: Portable Multi-Boot Security Suite
  • undead
    Posts: 822
    http://www.hackfromacave.com/pictures/katana/header.png

    Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite designed for many of your computer security needs. The idea behind this tool is to bring together all of the best security distributions to run from one USB drive. Katana includes distributions which focus on Pen-Testing, Auditing, Forensics, System Recovery, Network Analysis, Malware Removal and more.

    Download:
    Torrent: http://www.hackfromacave.com/torrents/k ... .0.torrent
    Mirrors:

    http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/pub/katana/
    http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/katana/
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/katana-usb/files/


    Usage

    Katana Bootable

    Power down the host device. Plug in the Katana disk (flash drive) into the host device. (Make sure computer BIOS allows USB boot.) Select the USB drive from the BOIS boot menu or change the BIOS so that the USB is a higher priority than the hard disk. This is often accomplished by hiting 'F12' or 'Esc' during the boot processs.

    http://www.hackfromacave.com/pictures/katana/katana.jpeg

    Booting from flash drive should result in the above menu. Use the arrow keys to navigate to the distribution you wish to boot. See the documentation provided in Katana for more information on the functions of the individual distributions.

    Installation

    Requirments: Requires USB flash drive (or other disk) of size 8GB or larger with 4GB free space formated FAT32. Also, turn off all virus scanner before install. Many of the tools included in Katana get flagged as "hacker tools" by many Anit-Virus programs.

    1. Download the Katana RAR file to the local disk.

    2. Extract Katana to the root of the USB flash drive; example "E:\" (Windows) or "/mount/sdb1" (Linux). (DO NOT extract into a subdirectory on the flash drive).

    3. Change directory to the freshly copied "boot" directory on the USB device. (Make sure you're in the "boot" directory on the USB device and NOT your local disk! )

    4. Run the following with Administrative privileges. For Linux/OSX run ./boostinst.sh, for Windows run ./boostinst.bat

    5. Make sure computer BIOS allows USB boot. Boot from flash drive. All Done!
  • undead
    Posts: 822
    That's not an os and it has backtrack inside so you won't get rid of it xD
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    Thanks for this nextlive, going to check this out today
  • zero
    Posts: 6
    thanxx seems very niceee....
  • undead
    Posts: 822
    no problem :) it is very nice and very easy to install it to your flash drive.
  • Xin
    Posts: 3,251
    Is it opensource? id like to take a look at the code
    Xin
  • First I have to say; I love the Katana Pic... Being an owner of multiple katana's, and a hacker... I love that...

    Second, thanks nextlive. I am going to download it here in a bit; though I probably won't put it on a flash... Probably a cd or dvd...
    On second thought; I think I will wait for a bit... I think I might just write something for it all to plug into a single linux distro; rather then a windows environment... When ever I get the time that is...
    "Mind, body, heart, and soul; when all work as one, this is control." - myself
  • I'll have to post my tutorial on my multiboot it allows you to add your own backgrounds, os's, images/disks and etc, it's so much better than this and you don't need an 8gb USB any will work it just depends on the size of the images your using.