Local Area Security Linux

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Jascha W.
6 West Hubbard
2nd Floor, Chicago IL 60611
Email: jascha-AT-localareasecurity.com
Web site: www.localareasecurity.com


Local Area Security Linux 0.4 MAIN Released

Chicago, Illinois--October 19, 2003--L.A.S. Linux is a 'live CD'
distribution of Linux which allows the applications to be run from the CD
without the need for installing anything on the computer.  The focus of
L.A.S. is create a  bootable toolkit for information security professionals
and systems administrators.  The advantage of L.A.S. is that it  has a very
small footprint.  This small footprint makes it able to fit on a 185MB
mini-CD.  The goal of L.A.S. Linux is  to provide a well-rounded tool in a
small package.

Despite its small size, L.A.S. contains over 250 security tools along with
basic desktop applications.  Utilizing the  FluxBox window manager, which is
a lightweight desktop environment.  L.A.S. has an array or forensic,
penetration  testing, intrusion detection, sniffers, monitoring and
administrative utilities.

Changes in this latest version of L.A.S. include the addition of the 'toram'
boot option allowing the user to boot the whole CD image into RAM.  Allowing
for the removal of the CD to free up the CDROM for burning etc.  Along with
the package additions of etherape, argus-server, argus-client, arpwatch,
bfbtester, cabextract, cflow, dlint, farpd, recover, gtkrecover, nasm, nast,
strace, ltrace, sudo, valgrind, pnscan, isic, splint, sendip, scli, scanssh,
rarpd, wellenreiter, router-audit-tool, httpush, bass, scansort, scanerrlog,
idsa / idsaguardgtk, crank (for fun), ccrypt, ntfstools, pasmal, bruth,
hlfl, less, smbfs, smstools, LinNeighborhood, snmp, snmpd, driftnet, Dillo,
admsmp, admsnmp, arptool, di, hammerhead, flawfinder, foremost, md5deep,
binutils, findutils, file, gall, libpst, libdbx, rda, ntreg, memfetch,
stegdetect, mkpersistenthome, mkdosswap, pv, cscope, scanlogd, cgrep, bsed,
vlad, warscan, zodiac, angst, hackbot, mieliekoek.pl, screamingcobra.pl,
cmospwd, macchanger, vomit, atmelwlandriver, wlcardconfig, sshstart-knoppix,
as well as updated version of nmap, ettercap, ethereal, etc.

For additional information and download mirrors visit:
www.localareasecurity.com

Local Area Security is sponsored by Logatren, Inc. (http://logatren.com)