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Kali Linux 2.0 Released
- richm44 11y agoHas anyone seen a list of what tools have been added in this release?
- at-fates-hands 11y agoHere you go: https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/ https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/ They've added a ton of stuff as well as removed metasploit pro package due to Rapid7 asking them to remove it.
- noobie 11y agoWhat is about Kali that sets it apart from other Linux distributions?
- jonesetc 11y agoIt is a distro built specifically for pen testing.
- noobie 11y agoWhat exactly do you mean by "built"? I mean if it's, like other users said, just a bundle of pre-installed tools, how does it differ from Ubuntu?
- finnn 11y agoKali includes a huge number of tools (some pre-installed, others in the repos) that aren't available via the package manager for most distros. Also things like wifi drivers that are patched to support monitor mode and default login as root, which is insecure for day-to-day computing but since most of the tools require root access, it's quite nice on Kali.
- brightball 11y agoI believe every network protocol and outside connection is disabled by default. It's supposed to be setup so that it can be booted invisibly, on an existing system via live USB so that you can simulate a real intrusion.
- UserRights 11y agoYou should doublecheck this with wireshark yourself before finding yourself in a potentially bad situation. Kali is not so silent as advertised.
- brightball 11y agoGood to know.
- elros 11y agoI'd guess its focus on penetration testing.
- altharaz 11y agoIt's a Debian-based distribution, with a lot of preinstalled penetration-testing tools. Deployed as a live USB, it becomes the Swiss Army knife of pentesters.
- redwards510 11y agoYou login as root. You don't use sudo.
- dr_zoidberg 11y ago`sudo -i` sort of solves the lack of su in Ubuntu and derivatives.
- sarciszewski 11y agoIt comes with the most popular tools for penetration testing. Personally, I try to steer people away from it until they've learned how to do things the hard way (i.e. you have Python and Bash installed, write your own simple tools and hack this network) and then Kali is easy mode.
- ryanlol 11y agoIt is uniquely bloated.
- kolev 11y ago"Kali Linux is Now a Rolling Distribution" - finally!
- Shank 11y agoI seriously thought that was the goal when they changed names from Backtrack to Kail in the first place. Oh well, good that it's now one at least.
- finnn 11y agoTheir site is down. Can someone post the magnet link? EDIT found the link on reddit: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:66fc47bf95d1aa5eca358f12c70af3ba5c7e8f9a&tr=udp://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce&tr=http://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce http://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce (torrent at http://images.kali.org/kali-linux-2.0-amd64.torrent http://images.kali.org/kali-linux-2.0-amd64.torrent)
- timboslice 11y agoSite is back up but cheers for the magnet!
- Cyberis 11y agokali.org's SSL cert shows as invalid due to a subject mismatch. Is that on purpose?
- phuckkali 11y agoKali is a pretty poor distro. Merely a fork of debian for no other purpose than to create clickable icons/menu items for cli applications that require sudo. So 99% of the security apps they install are presented in an unusable form. Nothing you can't do with debian and a few runs of apt-get.
- tacone 11y agoThey ship customized kernel and drivers for obvious reasons. That's the real deal.
- ryanlol 11y agoWhat does their "customized kernel" do? (Besides having a few wifi drivers built in)
- tacone 11y agoAFAIK just that.
- phuckkali 11y agoThe point is that none of the menu items are worth anything as they spawn an xterm, which emits an error about requiring sudo, then exits. Having a metric ton list of installed tools that are displayed and are not usable seems pretty daft.
- RandomBK 11y agoIt's been a while since I used Kali so this might have changed, but the distro provides pentest-focused default configs and patchsets that can be a pain to set up yourself. Configuring your own systems can also leave behind revealing information that will allow others to trace your activities. Kali is designed to allow you to quickly set up throwaway systems for particular projects. It's far from perfect, but represents a better starting point than a general-purpose distro.
- antsar 11y agoDoesn't Kali default to having you login as "root", for pretty much this exact reason?
- tacone 11y agoTL;DR Kali Linux is now a rolling distribution, which pulls packages from Debian testing.
- digitalzombie 11y agoIt took awhile to figure out what happen to backtrack seeing this Kali Linux I was curious about Backtrack. Kali Linux is the successor of Backtrack but on Debian. Interesting, they should have kept the brand sheesh.
- vmorgulis 11y ago> At the request of Rapid7, we have removed the Metasploit Community / Pro package from Kali Linux and now host the open-source metasploit-framework package only... > In addition, the Rapid7 team no longer maintains the Metasploit package in Kali... Seems they had a problem with metasploit company.
- kkl 11y agoIt is likely in response to this: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/06/05/availability-of-metasploit-community-metasploit-pro-trials-outside-us-canada https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/...
- resonanttoe 11y agoAnyone else getting a weird sha1sum on the Torrent? I've downloaded twice and I'm getting a34527e9178e7185eebbca0730d825a7c78fcca4 Kali's website (and sha1 file) says aaeb89a78f155377282f81a785aa1b38ee5f8ba0 I'm getting from http now, but its slow as sin.