BackBox 9
After two years, Nate Drake finally gets to review this Ubuntu-based pentesting distro. Can it contend with greats like Kali?
IN BRIEF
The hefty BackBox ISO is justified by a huge number of security tools. System performance is speedy, thanks to the distro’s Xubuntu base. Safe pentesting is assured by anonymous mode.
SPECS
CPU:
1GHz
Mem:
1GB
HDD:
30GB
Builds:
x86_64
We’ve been keen to do an in-depth review of this awesome pentesting distro since 2022. Unfortunately, just as we were poised to do an exposé on BackBox 8, Nate had to move country, so with apologies to readers, we are now poised to delve into its successor.