Athena OS
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| Developer | Antonio Voza |
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| OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Working state | Active |
| Source model | Open-source |
| Initial release | 19 June 2022 |
| Latest release | 2023.01[1] / 23 January 2023 |
| Update method | Rolling release |
| Package manager | Pacman (several front-ends available) |
| Platforms | x86, x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux Zen) |
| Default user interface | GNOME |
| License | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| Official website | github |
| Support status | |
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Athena OS is a Arch-derived Linux distribution designed for penetration testing, bug bounty hunting and InfoSec students. It is born to offer a different experience than the most used pentesting distributions. While these OSes rely on the direct usage of hacking tools, Athena focuses on the user learning, indeed it connects the user, in a comfortable manner, to access training resources and security feeds.[2]
Athena OS is designed from scratch in order to select in detail which modules, services and tools should be included or excluded with the purpose of improving performance and resource consumption. It uses Calamares as installation framework[3] properly designed to be flexible to the system configuration and additional software user choices. Athena OS uses GNOME as Desktop Environment.
Features[edit]
Athena OS consists in several elements with the purpose to make comfortable the user.[4] Some of them are key features of the user environment because are needed for reaching the objective of the project: making the user closer to the security and hacking resources.
One of these resources is Athena Welcome that allows users to set a Cyber Security role. Each role is related to a specific Cyber Security scope and, when selected, will retrieve and install all the tools related to the role. This approach allows the users to have installed only the security tools they need, according to their favorite profile, avoiding having bloatware. Athena OS provides the following roles:
- Black Hat Omniscient
- Bug Bounty Hunter
- Cracker Specialist
- Enthusiast Student
- Forensic Analyst
- Malware Analyst
- Mobile Analyst
- Network Analyst
- OSINT Specialist
- Red Teamer
- Web Pentester
Being an Arch-based Linux distribution, Athena OS leverages on BlackArch repository, giving the chance to retrieve more than 2800 security tools.[5]
Since Athena OS focuses on providing quick access to learning resources for Cyber Security students, by a special menu it is possible to access directly to the main learning hacking platforms and InfoSec communities for training, sharing knowledge and support.
One of the main features of Athena OS is the deep integration with Hack The Box hacking platform. Indeed, users can play Hack The Box machines, submit flags, write reviews directly from their endpoint without accessing the website. The logic behind it allows to have the attacker and victim IP addresses directly in the user shell prompt, and to programmatically set a domain name for the target IP address.
For improving the efficiency of users during the ethical hacking activities, several environment variables have been defined in order to immediately access to useful resources, wordlists and payloads.
The pre-configured browser in Athena OS comes with a big amount of bookmarks and several Cyber Security add-ons that are useful for learning or ethical hacking activities.
Requirements[edit]
Athena OS requires:
- A minimum of 20GB hard disk space for installation.
- A minimum of 2GB RAM.
- A bootable CD-DVD drive or a USB stick.
The recommended hardware specification for a smooth experience are:
- 30 GB of hard disk space, SSD preferred.
- At least 4GB of RAM.
- At least 2 cores.
See also[edit]
Other articles of the topic Computer programming : Software release life cycle, Programmer, Software developer
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- BackBox
- BlackArch
- Kali Linux
- List of digital forensic tools
- Parrot OS
- Security-focused operating system
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- Arch-based Linux distributions
- Computer security software
- Digital forensics software
- Linux distributions
- Linux security software
- Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
- Pacman-based Linux distributions
- Pentesting software toolkits
- Rolling Release Linux distributions
- Security testing tools
- X86-64 Linux distributions
