{"id":940,"date":"2015-04-29T01:31:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2015-04-29T01:31:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:31:50","slug":"backbox-linux-4-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"BackBox Linux 4.2 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>BackBox Developement Team<\/em> \u00a0announced the updated release of <em><strong>BackBox Linux \u00a0version 4.2.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s new on Backbox 4.2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preinstalled Linux Kernel 3.16<\/li>\n<li>New Ubuntu 14.04.2 base<\/li>\n<li>Ruby 2.1<\/li>\n<li>Installer with LVM and Full Disk Encryption options<\/li>\n<li>Handy Thunar custom actions<\/li>\n<li>RAM wipe at shutdown\/reboot<\/li>\n<li>System improvements<\/li>\n<li>Upstream components<\/li>\n<li>Bug corrections<\/li>\n<li>Performance boost<\/li>\n<li>Improved Anonymous mode<\/li>\n<li>Predisposition to ARM architecture (armhf Debian packages)<\/li>\n<li>Predisposition to BackBox Cloud platform<\/li>\n<li>New and updated hacking tools: beef-project, crunch, fang, galleta, jd-gui, metasploit-framework, pasco, pyew, rifiuti2, setoolkit, theharvester, tor, torsocks, volatility, weevely, whatweb, wpscan, xmount, yara, zaproxy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Backbo 4.2 System requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>32-bit or 64-bit processor<\/li>\n<li>512 MB of system memory (RAM)<\/li>\n<li>6 GB of disk space for installation<\/li>\n<li>Graphics card capable of 800\u00d7600 resolution<\/li>\n<li>DVD-ROM drive or USB port (2 GB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Upgrade instructions<\/strong><br \/>\n1. To upgrade from a previous version (BackBox 4.1) follow these instructions:<\/p>\n<pre>\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get dist-upgrade\nsudo apt-get install -f\nsudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-utopic linux-headers-generic-lts-utopic linux-signed-image-generic-lts-utopic\nsudo apt-get purge ri1.9.1 ruby1.9.1 ruby1.9.3 bundler\nsudo gem cleanup\nsudo rm -rf \/var\/lib\/gems\/1.*\nsudo apt-get install backbox-default-settings backbox-desktop --reinstall\nsudo apt-get install backbox-tools --reinstall\nsudo apt-get install beef-project metasploit-framework whatweb wpscan --reinstall\nsudo apt-get autoremove --purge\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe ISO images can be downloaded\u00a0here and available for\u00a0(32bit &amp; 64bit).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backbox.org\/downloads\">http:\/\/www.backbox.org\/downloads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BackBox Developement Team \u00a0announced the updated release of BackBox Linux \u00a0version 4.2. What&#8217;s new on Backbox 4.2 Preinstalled Linux Kernel 3.16 New Ubuntu 14.04.2 base Ruby 2.1 Installer with LVM and Full Disk Encryption options Handy Thunar custom actions RAM wipe at shutdown\/reboot System improvements Upstream components Bug corrections Performance boost Improved Anonymous mode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,384,154],"tags":[421,422,423],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backbox","category-information-security","category-pentesting-tools","tag-offensive-security","tag-penetration","tag-pentest-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}