PwnOS

So I have been pretty busy with school lately, so I haven't posted as much as I would like. But, I want to make a quick post about a new learning tool that I have found recently. It is called PwnOS and it is pretty cool. It is a set of 3 live slackware CDs all with different vulnerabilities and scenarios. I have only started on the 1.110 network cd but it seems pretty cool so far. I have setup a test environment using vmware server. I have a virtual network on the 192.168.1.0 subnet with dhcp and nat setup. I also have 2 VMs on that network, a backtrack 3 machine and a blank Vm that I use to run the live boot iso. It makes for great practice. PwnOS can be downloaded from http://forums.heorot.net/. There is also a preconfigured vm but it does not like to play nice with vmware server.

Update: I finished the 110 cd. It was pretty fun. I did find that you need to either use backtrack 2 of get the wordlists from /pentest/passwords/dictionaries in order to complete the challenge in any decent time. I had the passwords in other larger wordlists, but it is best to use the ones supplied in BT2(They were removed in BT3.).

Update:
I finished w/ the 1.100 cd and I am moving on to the 2.100 cd.

Update:
I finished the 2.100 cd and I am cracking the root password for a bonus. Man...it was so obvious once I figured it out. I cant believe it took me so long. But, it was a very good practice cd none the less.