Beware!! The Infectious Disease Is Released!!!

The title definitely draws eyeballs. Yes, and that is not a new hit box office, but a linux release codename. Haha, some of you might be surprised that how those linux geeks can come up with such a good name! (well, good name, that's what I think.)

Ok, Infectious Disease is the codename of Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) latest release( 5th December last year). Woohoo, another ear-catching name.

I just discovered DVL exactly last night and quite surprised that I've never heard of it before despite I've been using linux for some years. There is no mention of DVL on DistroWatch as well as Wikipedia.

DVL is built on DSL, Damn Small Linux, a lightweight distro which revives your old 10 years old 486 stone age box. Different from its brother, DVL is supposed to distroy it!

"DVL is a distro made to be extremely vulnerable to security risks."

" DVL is everything a good Linux distribution isn't. Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, and exploitable software that makes it vulnerable to attacks. DVL isn't built to run on your desktop -- it's a learning tool for security students."

"DVL was initiated by Thorsten Schneider of the International Institute for Training, Assessment and Certification (IITAC) and Secure Software Engineering (S2e) in cooperation with Kryshaam from the French Reverse Engineering Team. "The main idea behind DVL," says Schneider, "was to build up a training system that I could use for my university lectures."

"Schneider says that DVL's sole purpose is to give users as many security tools and training options as possible. "DVL is made by people with significant black hat backgrounds, incorporating the community of ReverseEngineering.net and Crackmes.de. It contains a huge amount of lessons, including lesson descriptions and solutions if the level has been solved by a community member at Crackmes.de."

That's about DVL. If you want to try Linux out, I suggest Ubuntu or Linux Mint. If you like this article, very easy, go here to donate :) Ooh, I love the Puppy.