BackBox Linux 4.7 Released, Updated To Linux Kernel 4.4
The BackBox team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, version 4.7. We thought to release a new minor version to give our users the opportunity to have a stable and up-to-date system until the next official major release, i.e. BackBox 5, still under development. In this release we have fixed some minor bugs, updated the kernel stack, base system and tools. The ISO images for 32-bit and 64-bit can be downloaded from the official web site download section. What's new? Updated Linux kernel 4.4; updated hacking tools - beef, Metasploit, OpenVAS, SE Toolkit, sqlmap, WPScan.
BackBox is an open source and free Linux distribution based on the world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu, built around the lightweight Xfce desktop environment and developed to perform security assessments and penetration tests.
Distributed as Live DVDs for 64-bit and 32-bit platforms
The operating system can be downloaded from Softpedia or its official website as Live DVD ISO images of approximately 2GB in size each, designed to support the 64-bit (amd64) and 32-bit (i386) hardware platforms.
What's new
- Updated Linux Kernel 4.4
- Updated hacking tools: beef, metasploit, openvas, setoolkit, sqlmap, wpscan, etc.
System requirements
- 32-bit or 64-bit processor
- 1024 MB of system memory (RAM)
- 10 GB of disk space for installation
- Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
- DVD-ROM drive or USB port (3 GB)
Upgrade instructions
To upgrade from a previous version (BackBox 4.x) follow these instructions:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-core-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev ruby2.1 ruby2.1-dev ruby2.2-dev ruby2.2 --reinstall
sudo apt-get purge ri1.9.1 ruby1.9.1 bundler libruby2.0 ruby2.0 ruby2.0-dev libruby1.9.1 ruby-full
sudo gem cleanup
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gems/1.*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gems/2.0.*
sudo apt-get install backbox-default-settings backbox-desktop backbox-menu backbox-tools --reinstall
sudo apt-get install beef-project metasploit-framework whatweb wpscan setoolkit --reinstallsudo apt-get autoremove --purge
sudo apt-get install openvas sqlite3
sudo openvas-launch sync
sudo openvas-launch start
sudo update-rc.d apache2 disable
sudo update-rc.d polipo disable
sudo update-rc.d openvas-gsa disable
sudo update-rc.d openvas-manager disable
sudo update-rc.d openvas-scanner disable
sudo apt-get autoremove --purgeDownload (SHA256) the live DVD image from here: backbox-4.7-amd64.iso (2,358MB, torrent, pkglist). Also available from OSDisc.
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