Kali Linux 1.1.0 - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution

After almost two years of public development (and another year behind the scenes), we are proud to announce our first point release of Kali Linux – version 1.1.0. This release brings with it a mix of unprecedented hardware support as well as rock solid stability. For us, this is a real milestone as this release epitomizes the benefits of our move from BackTrack to Kali Linux over two years ago. As we look at a now mature Kali, we see a versatile, flexible Linux distribution, rich with useful security and penetration testing related features, running on all sorts of weird and wonderful ARM hardware. But enough talk, here are the goods:

• The new release runs a 3.18 kernel, patched for wireless injection attacks.

• Our ISO build systems are now running off live-build 4.x.

• Improved wireless driver support, due to both kernel and firmware upgrades.

• NVIDIA Optimus hardware support.

• Updated virtualbox-tool, openvm-tools and vmware-tools packages and instructions.

• A whole bunch of fixes and updates from our bug-tracker changelog.

• And most importantly, we changed grub screens and wallpapers!

Upgrade Kali Linux 1.1.0

If you’ve already got Kali Linux installed and running, there’s no need to re-download the image as you can simply update your existing operating system using simple apt commands:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Download Kali Linux 1.1.0

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Kali Linux 1.0.7 Released

Kernel 3.14, Tool Updates, Package Improvements

Kali linux 1.0.7 has just been released, complete with a whole bunch of tool updates, a new kernel, and some cool new features. Check out our changelog for a full list of these items. As usual, you don’t need to re-download or re-install Kali to benefit from these updates – you can update to the latest and greatest using these simple commands:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
# If you've just updated your kernel, then:
reboot

Kali Linux Encrypted USB Persistence

One of the new sought out features introduced (which is also partially responsible for the kernel update) is the ability to create Kali Linux Live USB with LUKS Encrypted Persistence. This feature ushers in a new era of secure Kali Linux USB portability, allowing us to either boot to a “clean” Kali image or alternatively, overlay it with the contents of a persistent encrypted partition, all within the same USB drive.

Tool Developers Ahoy!

This release also marks the beginning of some co-ordinated efforts between Kali developers and tool developers to make sure their tools are represented correctly and are fully functional within Kali Linux. We would like to thank the metasploit, w3af, and wpscan dev teams for working with us to perfect their Kali packages and hope that more tool developers join in. Tool developers are welcome to send us an email to and we’ll be happy to work with you to better integrate your tool into Kali.

Kali Linux: Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

For quite some time now, we’ve been preaching that Kali Linux is more than a “Linux distribution with a collection of tools in it”. We invest a significant of time and resources developing and enabling features in the distribution which we think are useful for penetration testers and other security professionals. These features range from things like “live-build“, which allows our end users to easily customize their own Kali ISOs to features like Live USB persistence encryption, which provides paranoid users with an extra layer of security. Many of these features are unique to Kali and can be found nowhere else. We’ve started tallying these features and linking them from our Kali documentation page – check it out, it’s growing to be an impressive list!

Torrents, Virtual Machine & ARM images

In the next few days, Offensive Security will post Virtual Machine and custom ARM images for the 1.0.7 release. We will announce the availability of these images via our blogs and Twitter feeds, so stay tuned!.

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[Lazy-Kali] Bash Script for Kali Linux

A bash script for when you feel lazy.

Adds quite a few tools to Kali Linux.

• Bleeding Edge Repos
• AngryIP Scanner
• Terminator
• Xchat
• Unicornscan
• Nautilus Open Terminal
• Simple-Ducky
• Subterfuge
• Ghost-Phisher
• Yamas
• PwnStar
• Ettercap0.7.6
• Xssf
• Smbexec
• Flash
• Java
• Easy-Creds
• Java

... and more!

Lazy-Kali will also update Kali, Start Metaploit Services, Start Stop And Update Open-Vas 

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[Kali Linux 1.0.6] with LUKS Self-Destruction Feature

Offensive Security, the creator of the famous BackTrack Linux operating system, has announced on January 9 that a new maintenance release for its Kali Linux distribution is now available for download. 

Kali Linux 1.0.6 is the first release to introduce an amazing feature called "emergency self-destruction of LUKS," which allows users to quickly nuke the entire installation in case of an emergency.

Being powered by Linux kernel 3.12 kernel, Kali Linux 1.0.6 introduces the Offensive Security Trusted ARM image scripts, Kali Google Compute and AMAZON AMI image generation scripts, as well as numerous new tools, updates for existing ones, and many other interesting changes.

Keep in mind that Kali Linux is a rolling-release distro and you don’t have to download this new ISO in order to keep your installation up-to-date.

No Re-Downloading Required

root@kali:~# apt-get update
root@kali:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

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[Kali Linux v1.0.3] Penetration Testing Distribution

Kali Linux is the new generation of the industry-leading BackTrack Linux penetration testing and security auditing Linux distribution.

Kali is a complete re-build of BackTrack Linux, adhering completely to Debian development standards. All-new infrastructure has been put in place, all tools were reviewed and packaged, and we use Git for our VCS.

• More than 300 penetration testing tools: After reviewing every tool that was included in BackTrack, we eliminated a great number of tools that either did not work or had other tools available that provided similar functionality.
• Free and always will be: Kali Linux, like its predecessor, is completely free and always will be. You will never, ever have to pay for Kali Linux.
• Open source Git tree: We are huge proponents of open source software and our development tree is available for all to see and all sources are available for those who wish to tweak and rebuild packages.
• FHS compliant: Kali has been developed to adhere to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, allowing all Linux users to easily locate binaries, support files, libraries, etc.
• Vast wireless device support: We have built Kali Linux to support as many wireless devices as we possibly can, allowing it to run properly on a wide variety of hardware and making it compatible with numerous USB and other wireless devices.
• Custom kernel patched for injection: As penetration testers, the development team often needs to do wireless assessments so our kernel has the latest injection patches included.
• Secure development environment: The Kali Linux team is made up of a small group of trusted individuals who can only commit packages and interact with the repositories while using multiple secure protocols.
• GPG signed packages and repos: All Kali packages are signed by each individual developer when they are built and committed and the repositories subsequently sign the packages as well.
• Multi-language: Although pentesting tools tend to be written in English, we have ensured that Kali has true multilingual support, allowing more users to operate in their native language and locate the tools they need for the job.
• Completely customizable: We completely understand that not everyone will agree with our design decisions so we have made it as easy as possible for our more adventurous users to customize Kali Linux to their liking, all the way down to the kernel.
• ARMEL and ARMHF support: Since ARM-based systems are becoming more and more prevalent and inexpensive, we knew that Kali’s ARM support would need to be as robust as we could manage, resulting in working installations for both ARMEL and ARMHF systems. Kali Linux has ARM repositories integrated with the mainline distribution so tools for ARM will be updated in conjunction with the rest of the distribution. Kali is currently available for the following ARM devices:
  • rk3306 mk/ss808
  • Raspberry Pi
  • ODROID U2/X2
  • Samsung Chromebook

Kali is specifically tailored to penetration testing and therefore, all documentation on this site assumes prior knowledge of the Linux operating system.

Changelog

Bugfix rollup. New accessibility features. Added live Desktop installer.

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