I have been a fan of Backtrack from the good folks over at Remote-exploit.org for a long time now but their new release of Backtrack 4 has gotten me all excited again. There are tons of new, incredibly awesome, features in BT4.

One of my favorite additions is Maltego Community Edition. For those of you who don't know Maltego is an insanely powerful data gathering/forensics tool that can show a seemingly endless set of relationships between entities including people (social networking site affiliation, phone numbers, email, etc), servers, IP blocks and more. It's nice to see something like that get added. I only had one small problem with this distro and that was setting up Fasttrack, i'm not entirely sure the SVN servers are up at the moment, so that could've been part of the problem but I'll get it working eventually. So, for any of you that are the least bit interested in information security or anything of the sort download BT4 (I recommend the VMWare image) and play with it on your network. Endless fun to be had.