Live Hacking CD 1.1 Final-On a USB Thumb Drive-How to Make-Tutorial Guide

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How To Make a Bootable USB thumb drive LIVE HACKING CD

(by Dr. ALI JAHANGIRI) Tutorial Guide

This tutorial is the first and one & only so far about this subject published anywhere on net , so

for the start I am going first to introduce briefly the readers who don’t have background

knowledge of Dr. Ali Jahangiri and his Live Hacking CD to the following informations before

starting the tutorial.

About Live Hacking CD:

Live Hacking CD is a new Linux distribution packed with tools and utilities focused on

penetration testing and ethical hacking and countermeasure verification. Based on Ubuntu this

“Live CD” runs directly from the CD and doesn’t require installation on your hard-drive. The

analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes toconduct live hacking and penetration tests. Once booted you can use the included tools to test,

check, ethically hack and perform penetration tests on your own network to make sure that it is

secure from outside intruders.

Live Hacking CD vs. BACKTRACK 4:

http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/2010/05/10/live-hacking-cd-vs-backtrack-4/

Live Hacking CD comes in two forms. A full Linux desktop including a graphical user interface

(GNOME) and applications like Firefox along with tools and utilities for DNS enumeration,

reconnaissance, foot-printing, password cracking and network sniffing. For greater accessibility

there is a Live Hacking menu to help you quick find and launch the tools.

The second variation is the Live Hacking Mini CD, which is command line only. However this

doesn't detract from the power of the tools and utilities included as most of the penetration

testing and ethical hacking tools are command line tools. The included /lh directory has symbolic

links to the different tools included.

The system requirements for the Live Hacking CDs are quite reasonable. A fast Pentium 3 or any

Pentium 4 class processor (or greater) is sufficient. For the desktop version 512MB of memory is

required with 1GB recommended. For the command line version just 128MB of memory is

needed.


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DNS Enumeration

DNS is the Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Each time you use a

domain name, DNS is used to translate the name into the corresponding IP address. To do the

translation DNS holds records for each domain. The Live Hacking CD includes tools specifically

designed for working with DNS.

Reconnaissance

Just like in the military the first step to any mission is reconnaissance; exploring the network to

gain information. The idea is to map out the target network and systems before trying to find

the potential security weaknesses. Included on the Live Hacking CD are a set of tools to help you

perform reconnaissance on your network.

Foot-printing

Once the network has been mapped out, you need to gather information about the specific

computers on the network. To help you do this the Live Hacking CD includes the tools you need.

Password Cracking

While trying to penetrate your network you will need to test the strength of the passwords

being used. The Live Hacking CD has the tools you need to try and crack the passwords used on

your network and on your systems.

Network Sniffing

The technique used to monitor and analyze the traffic on your network is called network sniffing

(or sometimes data packet sniffing). Here a packet sniffer captures the packets of data that pass

around the network. Within your network you may find that usernames and passwords are


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being sent in clear text meaning that the information would be viewable to anyone who can

capture your network traffic. The Live Hacking CD contains network sniffing tools to enable you

to capture, monitor and analyze your network traffic.

Spoofing (or Masquerading)

Spoofing is the creation of network packets in such a way that they appear as if they came from

somewhere or someone else. Spoofing is an integral part of many network attacks and the Live

Hacking CD has the tools you need to help you create fake network traffic in order to penetrate

your network.

Wireless Networking Utilities

Many networks now use Wi-Fi to enable laptops and mobile devices to connect to the network

without wires. The strength and simultaneously the weakness of Wi-Fi is that the network traffic

is broadcast to every device. The Live Hacking CD is packed with tools to help you monitor and

secure your wireless network.

Open Source and Ethical:

The Live Hacking CD is designed for ethical computer hacking, meaning that it contains the tools

and utilities you need to test and hack your own network but using the tools and techniques

that more malicious hackers would use.

The Live Hacking CD is based on open source technology and uses the popular Ubuntu Linux

distribution as its base. All the tools included can be freely found in either the Ubuntu

repositories on the Internet. The CD is designed to be a platform to help IT security professionals

(as well as those with a general interest in information security) to start, understand and

conduct penetration tests and ethical hacking.


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Dr. Jahangiri, the world renowned security expert and the brain-child behind the Live Hacking

CD, has made it available to the public for free to encourage IT professionals and others to

enhance their knowledge and to prepare for the malicious activities of the unscrupulous hacker.

As with all community and open projects, Dr. Jahangiri and his team welcome all comments, and

suggestions along with possible cooperation opportunities to make the Live Hacking CD as

complete and useful as possible. More info here: http://www.livehacking.com/

Live Hacking CD vs. BACKTRACK 4:

http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/2010/05/10/live-hacking-cd-vs-backtrack-4/

About Dr. Ali Jahangiri:

Dr. Ali Jahangiri (Sc.D, CITP MBCS, LPT, CEH, CHFI, ECSA, CEI, ISMS Lead Auditor, Security+, CIW

Security Analyst, MCSE: Security, MBCS, MCSA, MCDBA, CCNA, A+)

Is an information security expert specializes in delivering practical information security and

cyber forensic solutions. He has an extensive background in computer science and has worked

as an information security auditor, security consultant and technical trainer, gaining experience

and reaching achievements across the whole spectrum of technical and management aspects of

Information Technology, Information Security, Business Continuity, Networking and Systems

Integration and physical security in Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

companies.

Dr. Jahangiri conducts more than 1,000 hours training per year in the various subjects in

information security and cyber forensics. He also has registered and pending patents in the area

of network security and cyber forensics with many published papers in international journals. He

is a Chartered IT Professional member of the British Computer Society, and a professional

member of both the IEEE and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.

Dr. Jahangiri has been selected for the Instructor Circle of Excellence Award in 2009 by EC-

Council for his Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and Certified Hacking Forensic Investigation (CHFI)workshops. Further, he has been selected as a computer scientist from 60,000 other leaders

from industries and from 215 countries and territories for the 2010 edition of Marquis Who's

who in the World. His vast professional experience and academic activities are the keys to his

success.

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The Tutorial:

1- You need a Windows PC to work with this tutorial (if you are working from WindowsVista or 7 you will need to work with elevated privileges “Run as Administrator”).

2- You need a 2 G.B. or better USB 2.0 clean thumb drive.

3- You will need WinRar to extract some files, get it from here : http://www.rarlab.com/

4- You need to download the latest Live Hacking CD Iso image from the following link:

http://www.livehacking.com/cd-dvd/download.htm

Make sure you accept the license agreement and input the user name and password

you will be asked for so you can download the needed file:

User Name: cd

Password: password

When you are on the download page make sure you choose the latest 1.1 full version of27 April 2010, and click on the download link under the server No. (2) Where the ISO

image is there, because the download link under the server (1) is for the zip file which

we do not need in this tutorial.

So when you click on the download link under server (2) you will be asked to input the

user name and password I mentioned above, the ISO file is 689 MB.

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5- While you are waiting for the Live Hacking CD ISO image to finish downloading, go

ahead and download the following files from this link to your desktop and extract them

with WinRar to separate folders:

- Bootfiles.rar

- Grub4Dos.rar

- Usb_format.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=74f94aa299407faad956df2962098fcb125b8e0beb38d31

cb878de785cc0f59e

6- Now insert the USB2.0 thumb drive you want to use in your pc and make sure you know

its drive letter.

7- Open usb_format folder and right click on usb_format.exe file and RUN as

Administrator if you are working from Windows Vista or 7 and do as shown below.

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8- Open grub4dos folder and right click on grubinst_gui.exe file and Run as

Administrator if you are working from Windows Vista or 7, and follow the

demonstration below:


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9- Now open bootfiles folder and copy the 3 files you find there to the USB thumb drive

( grldr + menu.lst + splash.xpm.gz )

10- Last thing is to copy the livehackingcd_V1-1_full.iso file (689MB) you downloaded to

your USB thumb drive.

11- Last step is to make sure the files inside your USB thumb drive are now 4 files and looks

like the picture below:


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12- Now that you checked all steps and files in thumb drive are identical to this

demonstration, you are ready now to boot the USB stick and test drive it...

Enjoy!! And Good Luck, the pictures below are the boot menu you will see first thing

after rebooting with the USB thumb drive you just made, and the picture of the OSdesktop when you log on to it, mention the Live Hacking tools menu in the pictures.


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