Kali Linux

Following the recent disclosure of a backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma , we are writing this “get started” kind of blog post. We will explain how to setup an environment with the backdoored ver...

https://www.kali.org/blog/xz-backdoor-getting-started/

As of 5:00 pm ET on March 29, 2024 the following information is accurate. Should there be updates to this situation, they will be edited onto this blog post. The xz-utils package , starting fr...

https://www.kali.org/blog/about-the-xz-backdoor/

Hello 2024! Today we are unveiling KALI LINUX 2024.1. As this is our the first release of the year, it does include new visual elements! Along with this we also have some exciting new mirrors to...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2024-1-release/

Last month we were privileged to be invited by GitLab to participate in the introduction of GitLab’s DEI Badging integration . Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) badging is an initiative t...

https://www.kali.org/blog/dei-promise/

TL;DR: Dear Kali user, when you have a moment, check your /etc/apt/sources.list, and add non-free-firmware if ever it’s missing. Programmatically speaking: kali@kali:~$ sudo sed -i 's/n...

https://www.kali.org/blog/non-free-firmware-transition/

With 2023 coming to an end and before the holiday season starts, we thought today would be a good time to release KALI 2023.4. Whilst this release may not have the most end-user features in it a...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2023-4-release/

Today we are delighted to introduce our latest release of Kali , 2023.3. This release blog post does not have the most features in it, as a lot of the changes have been behind-the-scenes, which b...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2023-3-release/

TL;DR: pip install is on the way out. Installing Python packages must be done via APT, aka. Kali Linux’s package manager. Python packages coming from other sources should be installed in virtua...

https://www.kali.org/blog/python-externally-managed/

Quick off the mark from previous 10 year anniversary , KALI LINUX 2023.2 is now here. It is ready for immediate download or upgrading if you have an existing Kali Linux installation. The chan...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2023-2-release/

Wednesday 13th, March 2013, 10 years ago, Kali Linux v1.0 was first released . Today we want to celebrate Kali’s 10th anniversary! Time has flown. And gosh, a lot has changed since then! They...

https://www.kali.org/blog/10-years/

Today we are releasing Kali 2023.1 (and on our 10TH ANNIVERSARY)! It will be ready for immediate download or updating by the time you have finished reading this post. Given its our 10th anniv...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2023-1-release/

One of the primary goals of Kali Linux is to put the tools you need as close to you as possible. Over the years this has resulted in a number of different ways to get Kali, but not everyone knows...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-is-everywhere/

Before the year is over, we thought it was best to get the final 2022 release out. Today we are publishing KALI LINUX 2022.4. This is ready for immediate download or updating existing installat...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2022-4-release/

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. We mentioned that we can leave it somewhere as a drop box. This b...

https://www.kali.org/blog/remotely-accessing-secure-kali-raspberry-pi/

The following blog post was written by a moderator on the Kali Linux & Friends Discord server, Tristram. A massive thank you to Tristram for writing this blog post and to all of the participant...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-community-themes/

The Kali community has been hard at work (as always!), and we want to showcase what we think is a very cool project of Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi Zero W , the “P4WNP1 A.L.O.A. (A Little Offe...

https://www.kali.org/blog/community-showcase-using-kali-pi-p4wnp1-aloa/

In light of “Hacker Summer Camp 2022” (BlackHat USA, BSides LV, and DEFCON) occurring right now, we wanted to push out Kali Linux 2022.3 as a nice surprise for everyone to enjoy! With the pub...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2022-3-release/

This is the first part of a 3 part series of blog posts surrounding Kali usage on Raspberry Pi devices. This first post will cover enabling Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on a Raspberry Pi, part two ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/secure-kali-raspberry-pi/

We have always made all our build-scripts public. These are the same set of tools which we use to generate Kali Linux (for each release, or our weekly images). You may have noticed that previous...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-vm-builder-weekly/

A few months ago, Linode reached out to us asking “What would be needed in order to get Kali added to Linode?”. We explained to them how all the build-scripts that we used to create Kali ar...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-and-linode/

It’s that time of year again, time for another Kali Linux release! QUARTER #2 - KALI LINUX 2022.2. This release has various impressive updates, all of which are ready for immediate download o...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2022-2-release/

> ADJECTIVE (GERMAN) >  > UNKAPUTTBAR  > (comparative unkaputtbarer, superlative am unkaputtbarsten)  >  > From un- + kaputt + -bar. (colloquial) indestructible, unbreakable ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/unkaputtbar/

Today we are pushing out the first Kali Linux release of the new year with KALI LINUX 2022.1, and just in time for Valentine’s Day! This release brings various visual updates and tweaks to exi...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2022-1-release/

Here is a very quick announcement for users of the Kali Linux Docker Images . Until recently we used to have a Docker image named simply kali, and it was built from the last versioned release ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/renaming-kali-stable-docker-image/

With the end of 2021 just around the corner, we are pushing out the last release of the year with KALI LINUX 2021.4, which is ready for immediate download or updating . The summary of the cha...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2021-4-release/

Today we have released the newest version of KALI LINUX, 2021.3 (quarter #3), which is now ready for download or updating . A summary of the changes since the 2021.2 release from June are: O...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2021-3-release/

Say hello to KALI LINUX 2021.2! This release welcomes a mixture of new items as well as enhancements of existing features, and is ready to be downloaded (from our updated page) or upgraded if yo...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2021-2-release/

On and off for the last 18 months we have been working on KABOXER, and just before Kali 2021.1, it is ready to say “Hello World” (then it will start shipping you applications). TL;DR - WHAT...

https://www.kali.org/blog/introducing-kaboxer/

When Ampere partnered with Debian , this caught our eye. We were aware that our current ARM cloud provider was soon ending support for arm64 servers (which we use for our build daemons). At Ka...

https://www.kali.org/blog/ampere/

Today we’re pushing out the first Kali Linux release of the year with KALI LINUX 2021.1. This edition brings enhancements of existing features, and is ready to be downloaded or upgraded if yo...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2021-1-release/

We have always worked to support the information security community as a whole, and over the years experimented with different ideas (some with a greater success than others). One of the key comp...

https://www.kali.org/blog/empire-starkiller/

Many of you may have known about the show Mr Robot and its unique connection to Kali Linux. But there is a little bit more that we have not talked about due to NDAs. But it appears the mystery i...

https://www.kali.org/blog/mr-robot-arg-society/

As the end of the year is coming up (some may say not quickly enough), we want to take a few minutes and recap on our roadmap 2019/2020 post . At a higher level, the last 12 months of Kali Linu...

https://www.kali.org/blog/2019-2020-review-onwards-with-2021/

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Today we are announcing the Kali Linux newsletter. It’s easy to miss certain news. Not everyone is regularly checking our web page to see if something has bee...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-newsletter-keeping-in-touch/

We find ourselves in the 4th quarter of 2020, and we are ecstatic to announce the release of KALI LINUX 2020.4, which is ready for immediate download or updating . What’s different with this...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2020-4-release/

We have been humbled by the amazing response to our recent launch of Win-KeX . After its initial release, we asked ourselves if that is truly the limit of what we can achieve or could we pull off...

https://www.kali.org/blog/win-kex-version-2-0/

Its that time of year again, time for another Kali Linux release! QUARTER #3 - KALI LINUX 2020.3. This release has various impressive updates, all of which are ready for immediate download or u...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2020-3-release/

Despite the turmoil in the world, we are thrilled to be bringing you an awesome update with Kali Linux 2020.2! And it is available for immediate download . A quick overview of what’s new sinc...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2020-2-release/

MANY OUTSTANDING DISCOVERIES HAVE BEEN MADE BY OUR VIBRANT NETHUNTER COMMUNITY SINCE 2020.1, SO WE HAVE DECIDED TO PUBLISH A MID-TERM RELEASE TO SHOWCASE THESE AMAZING DEVELOPMENTS ON SELECTED D...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-nethunter-updates/

Just a quick update to the 2020.1 release we put out last month. We made some major changes to the installers, and some people had a few issues with some of the images we released. So, we made s...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2020-1a-release/

There was some recent noise around children and their use of Kali , so @Re4son stepped up with a new way to run Kali in locations where it may have been hard to in the past. This allows you to ru...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-everywhere/

We are here to kick off our first release of the decade, with Kali Linux 2020.1! Available for immediate download . The following is a brief feature summary for this release: Non-Root by defaul...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2020-1-release/

For years now, Kali has inherited the default root user policy from BackTrack. As part of our evaluation of Kali tools and policies we have decided to change this and move Kali to a “traditio...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-default-non-root-user/

Five years ago, the Python developers announced that they will stop supporting Python 2 in 2020 . For a long time, nobody cared and Python 3 adoption was slow. But things have changed a lot latel...

https://www.kali.org/blog/python-2-end-of-life/

Time to grab yourself a drink, this will take a while! We are incredibly excited to announce our fourth and final release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.4, which is available immediately for down...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2019-4-release/

We are pleased to announce that our third release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.3, is available immediately for download . This release brings our kernel up to version 5.2.9 , and includes various new...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2019-3-release/

With our 2019.3 Kali release imminent, we wanted to take a quick moment to discuss one of our more significant upcoming changes: our selection of metapackages. These alterations are designed to o...

https://www.kali.org/blog/major-metapackage-makeover/

Kali NetHunter has been undergoing a ton of changes of late. Now supporting over 50 devices and running on Android devices from KitKat (v4.4) to Pie (v9.0), its amazing the extra capabilities tha...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-nethunter-app-store/

We love the Raspberry Pi, and judging by the response we got to a late night tweet we sent out last weekend a lot of you love the Pi too! Because of that, when the Pi 4 dropped we wanted to g...

https://www.kali.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-and-kali/

DigitalOcean is a cloud provider similar to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and many others. They offer instances, called “droplets”, with different Linux distributions such as ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-in-the-digitalocean-cloud/

Now that our 2019.2 release is out, we thought we would take this opportunity to cover some of the changes and new features we have coming to Kali Linux in the following year. Normally, we only r...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-roadmap-2019-2020/

Kali Linux has had support for WSL for some time , but its usefulness has been somewhat limited. This was mostly due to restrictions placed on some system calls , most importantly those revolving...

https://www.kali.org/blog/wsl2-and-kali/

Welcome to our second release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.2, which is available for immediate download . This release brings our kernel up to version 4.19.28, fixes numerous bugs, includes many upda...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2019-2-release/

Welcome to our first release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.1, which is available for immediate download . This release brings our kernel up to version 4.19.13, fixes numerous bugs, and includes many u...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2019-1-release/

RUNNING KALI ON A GEM The Gemini PDA from Planet Computers is an ultra-thin, clamshell mobile device with a tactile keyboard. Sporting a 5.99" screen, QWERTY keyboard, 4G & Wi-Fi, deca-core CPU...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-for-the-gemini-pda/

Welcome to our fourth and final release of 2018, Kali Linux 2018.4, which is available for immediate download . This release brings our kernel up to version 4.18.10, fixes numerous bugs, includes...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2018-4-release/

Inspired by a recent community blog post , we have decided to add a new official way for our community to use Kali. Starting now, you can find an officially maintained Kali Linux image in the Vag...

https://www.kali.org/blog/announcing-kali-for-vagrant/

One of the many useful things we can do with APT is create metapackages, which are effectively empty packages that declare a list of other packages as dependencies. Kali Linux includes metapackag...

https://www.kali.org/blog/making-your-own-kali-linux-metapackages/

We have been hearing a lot about WireGuard lately and with it being recently added to the Kali repos, we thought we would give it a quick try to see what all the fuss is about. All in all, we fo...

https://www.kali.org/blog/wireguard-on-kali/

We love it when community members come up with new ideas or interesting builds, and this one caught our attention. Jacek Kowalczyk hit us up on twitter with a really interesting story. His approa...

https://www.kali.org/blog/my-custom-kali-linux-distribution/

Another edition of Hacker Summer Camp has come and gone. We had a great time meeting our users, new and old, particularly at our Black Hat and DEF CON Dojos, which were led by our great friend @i...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2018-3-release/

We use live-build to create our official Kali releases and we encourage users to jump in and build their own customized versions of Kali whenever we can. Our documentation of the process is one ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/build-kali-with-live-build-on-debian-based-systems/

We have covered how to create secure “throw-away hack boxes” using the Raspberry Pi before , but we thought it was time to go back and take a look at the process again. With all the new Raspb...

https://www.kali.org/blog/secure-kali-pi-2018/

UPDATE NOV 2019 This post is out of date as of 2019 as powershell has been added to the primary repos. Just do a: apt update && apt -y install powershell And you will have powershell on...

https://www.kali.org/blog/installing-powershell-on-kali-linux/

This Kali release is the first to include the Linux 4.15 kernel, which includes the x86 and x64 fixes for the much-hyped Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. It also includes much better suppor...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2018-2-release/

In an earlier post, we covered Package Management in Kali Linux . With the ease of installation that APT provides, we have the choice amongst tens of thousands of packages but the downside is, we...

https://www.kali.org/blog/finding-packages-for-kali-linux/

No, really…this isn’t clickbait. For the past few weeks, we’ve been working with the Microsoft WSL team to get Kali Linux introduced into the Microsoft App Store as an official WSL distribu...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-in-the-windows-app-store/

Welcome to our first release of 2018, Kali Linux 2018.1. This fine release contains all updated packages and bug fixes since our 2017.3 release last November. This release wasn’t without its ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2018-1-release/

> “WHETHER YOU’RE NEW TO THE FIGHT, OR A SEASONED PRO, DON’T > STOP TRAINING…” This statement, like the video that introduced it, has real punch. We did this on purpose to...

https://www.kali.org/blog/your-kali-training-journey-starts-here/

UPDATE : THIS POST IS OUTDATED. FOR A BETTER WAY OF GETTING KALI LINUX ON WINDOWS 10, INSTALL Kali Linux from the App store . We’re always on the prowl for novel environments to run Kali on, ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-on-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kali Linux 2017.3 , which includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since our last release . In this release, the kernel has ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2017-3-release/

Users often request the addition of vulnerability scanners to Kali, most notably the ones that begin with “N”, but due to licensing constraints, we do not include them in the distribution. Fo...

https://www.kali.org/blog/configuring-and-tuning-openvas-in-kali-linux/

WPA2 KEY REINSTALLATION ATTACK OR KRACK ATTACK Recently, Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, discovered a serious weakness in WPA2 known as the Key Reinstallation AttaCK (or KRACK) attac...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-on-krack/

The Advanced Package Tool (APT) is how programs, libraries, documentation, and even the kernel itself are installed and managed on Kali and other Debian-based derivatives. APT often works so wel...

https://www.kali.org/blog/advanced-package-management-in-kali-linux/

We are happy to announce the release of Kali Linux 2017.2, available now for your downloading pleasure. This release is a roll-up of all updates and fixes since our 2017.1 release in April. In ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2017-2-release/

VMWARE FUSION KALI USB BOOT One of the fun, and often necessary, features of Kali Linux is the ability to create really killer, completely customized live-boot installations. Normally stored on ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/vmware-fusion-kali-usb-boot/

The Kali community is a pretty crazy thing. There are folks all over the world doing interesting things with Kali Linux and far too often, these cool projects get overlooked. Part of the problem ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-drones-portable-ctf-builds-raspberry-pi-craziness-and-more/

Finally, it’s here! We’re happy to announce the availability of the KALI LINUX 2017.1 ROLLING RELEASE, which brings with it a bunch of exciting updates and features. As with all new releases,...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2017-1-release/

A couple of weeks back we added more HTTPS support to our Kali infrastructure, and wanted to give our users some guidance and point out what’s new. While our Kali Linux download page (and shas...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-repository-https-support/

Due to increasing popularity of cloud-based instances for password cracking, we decided to focus our efforts into streamlining Kali’s approach. We’ve noticed that Amazon’s AWS P2-Series an...

https://www.kali.org/blog/cloud-cracking-with-cuda-gpu/

INTRODUCING THE KLCP CERTIFICATION After almost two years in the making, it is with great pride that we announce today our new KALI LINUX PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION - the first and only official...

https://www.kali.org/blog/introducing-kali-linux-certified-professional/

We’re happy to announce that we’ve once again listed our Kali Linux images on the Amazon AWS marketplace. You can now spin up an updated Kali machine easily through your EC2 panel. Our curre...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-aws-cloud/

KALI LINUX IN THE AZURE MARKETPLACE Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been working on building and implementing Kali 2016.2 in the AZURE MARKETPLACE. We’re happy to announce that from toda...

https://www.kali.org/blog/azure-marketplace-weekly-iso-builds/

We’re well recovered from the Black Hat and DEF CON Vegas conferences and as promised, we’re launching our second Kali Rolling ISO release aka KALI 2016.2. This release brings a whole bunch o...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2016-2-release/

KALI LINUX DOJO, BLACKHAT 2016 - LAS VEGAS We have really enjoyed doing the DOJO AT BLACK HAT the last few years. It’s been a great opportunity to show off some of the lesser known (but oh so...

https://www.kali.org/blog/hacking-kali-black-hat/

The folks at BLACK HAT have been kind enough to invite us once again to deliver a Kali Dojo in Las Vegas this year. The event will be held on the 4TH OF AUGUST AT THE MANDALAY BAY hotel, and wil...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-dojo-black-hat-vegas-2016/

OUR FIRST RELEASE OF KALI-ROLLING (2016.1) Today marks an important milestone for us with the first public release of our KALI LINUX ROLLING DISTRIBUTION. Kali switched to a rolling release mode...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2016-1-release/

KALI SANA RELEASE AFTERMATH Kali Linux 2.0 has been out for a couple of months and the response has been great, with well OVER A MILLION UNIQUE DOWNLOADS OF KALI 2.0 as a testament. Release day ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-moto-eol/

OUR NEXT GENERATION PENETRATION TESTING PLATFORM We’re still buzzing and recovering from the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences where we finished presenting our new (](/docs/development/dojo-ma...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2-0-release/

We’ve been awfully quiet lately, which usually means something is brewing below the surface. In the past few months we’ve been working feverishly on our next generation of Kali Linux and we�...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2-release-day-scheduled/

For the latest information, please see our documentation on Docker Last week we received an email from a fellow penetration tester, requesting official KALI LINUX DOCKER IMAGES that he could ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/official-kali-linux-docker-images/

A short while ago, we packaged and pushed out a few important wireless penetration testing tool updates for aircrack-ng, pixiewps and reaver into Kali’s repository. These new additions and upd...

https://www.kali.org/blog/pixiewps-reaver-aircrack-ng-updates/

VULNERABILITY SCANNING is a crucial phase of a penetration test and having an updated vulnerability scanner in your security toolkit can often make a real difference by helping you discover overl...

https://www.kali.org/blog/openvas-vulnerability-scanning/

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 m...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-1-0-release/

SQUASH THE BUGS WITH KALI 1.0.9A Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen a bunch of nasty bugs hit the scene, from SHELLSHOCK to Debian APT vulnerabilities. As we prefer not to ship vulnera...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-9a-release/

Now that we have caught our breath after the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, we have put aside some time to fix an annoying bug in our 1.0.8 ISO releases related to outdated firmware as well a...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-9-release/

The long awaited Kali Linux USB EFI boot support feature has been added to our binary ISO builds, which has prompted this early Kali Linux 1.0.8 release. This new feature simplifies getting Kali ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-8-release/

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 chan...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-7-release/

One of our goals when developing Kali Linux was to provide multiple metapackages that would allow us to easily install subsets of tools based on their particular needs. Until recently, we only h...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-metapackages/

KALI LINUX IN THE AMAZON EC2 MARKETPLACE EDIT: For updated Kali Rolling images in the Amazon AWS, check this post . After several weeks of “back and forth” with the Amazon EC2 team, Kali L...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-amazon-ec2-ami/

Kali Linux contains a large number of very useful tools that are beneficial to information security professionals. One set of such tools belongs to the PASS-THE-HASH toolkit, which includes favo...

https://www.kali.org/blog/passing-hash-remote-desktop/

There’s been a fair amount of discussion around the recently introduced LUKS nuke patch we added to the cryptsetup package in Kali Linux. We wanted to take this opportunity to better explain ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/nuke-kali-linux-luks/

KERNEL 3.12, LUKS NUKE, AMAZON AMI / GOOGLE COMPUTE IMAGES AND MORE! It’s been a while since our last minor release which makes 1.0.6 a more significant update than usual. With a new 3.12 kern...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-6-release/

KALI LINUX FULL DISK ENCRYPTION As penetration testers , we often need to travel with sensitive data stored on our laptops. Of course, we use full disk encryption wherever possible, including ou...

https://www.kali.org/blog/emergency-self-destruction-luks-kali/

We’re always on the lookout for and interesting ARM hardware for Kali Linux. Whether it’s a Galaxy Note or a USB stick sized SS808 , we want to see Kali run on it. You can therefore imagine ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/ultimate-pentesting-pwnbox-2013-utilite/

Today we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kali Linux 1.0.5 with a rollup of various tool additions, fixes, and upgrades , including our fix for the encrypted encrypted LVM i...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-5-release/

KALI LINUX ON ANY ANDROID PHONE OR TABLET Getting Kali Linux to run on ARM hardware has been a major goal for us since day one. So far, we’ve built NATIVE images for the Samsung Chromebook...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-android-linux-deploy/

A little while back, a bug with the LVM encrypted install in Kali Linux 1.0.4 was reported in our bug tracker . This bug was high priority in our TODO as encrypted installs are an important feat...

https://www.kali.org/blog/tracking-fixing-installer-bugs/

Whenever we are given the opportunity to describe Kali Linux, we use the word “POWERFUL”. Have you ever wondered or asked yourself why exactly we consider Kali to be so “Powerful”? Why is...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-penetration-testing-platform/

In keeping with our tradition of publishing new releases during the annual Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, we are pleased to announce the availability of Kali Linux 1.0.4 . The last few mont...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-4-release/

We’ve just pushed a bunch of packages, tools, and utilities to the main Kali repositories. These tools have been on the top of our wish list for a while and some of them were quite challenging ...

https://www.kali.org/blog/pass-the-hash-toolkit-winexe-updates/

A couple of weeks ago, we were approached (independently) by two blind security enthusiasts who both drew our attention to the fact that Kali Linux had no built-in accessibility features. This ma...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-3-release/

We’ve been busy this week, still behind on our emails, but going strong with Kali development. We packaged some new tools which were pointed out by the community as missing, such as INGUMA, AR...

https://www.kali.org/blog/bleeding-edge-kali-repositories/

Five days into the Kali Linux release at BlackHat EU in Amsterdam, and we’re still not fully recovered. Since the release, we’ve had just over 90,000 DOWNLOADS, a dozen or so package updates...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-1-release/

ENTER KALI LINUX “SO, WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BACKTRACK AND KALI?” you might be asking. Unfortunately for us, that’s not a simple question to answer. It’s a mix between “every...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-whats-new/

KALI LINUX, THE RISING It’s been 7 years since we released our first version of BackTrack Linux , and the ride so far has been exhilarating. When the dev team started talking about BackTrack 6...

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-0-release/