Kali Linux : Hacker's Friend

Kali Linux, which was formally known as BackTrack, is a forensic and security-focused distribution based on Debian's Testing branch. Kali Linux is designed with penetration testing, data recovery and threat detection in mind. The project switched over to a rolling release model earlier this year in an effort to provide more up to date security utilities to the distribution's users.

By the time I was finished my trial with Kali Linux I was more puzzled than when I started as to why I keep hearing about new Linux users installing the distribution. Nothing on the project's website suggests it is a good distribution for beginners or, in fact, anyone other than security researches. In fact, the Kali website specifically warns people about its nature.

That is not to say Kali isn't a good distribution. The project has a very precise mission: provide a wide variety of security tools in a live (and installable) package. As a live disc a professional can take with them to jobs and use from any computer, Kali does quite well. The catch is we need to already be familiar with the security tools Kali provides. Friendly and discoverable graphical applications are few and far between with Kali and almost everything is done from the command line.

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH KALI LINUX?

• Nmap

• Aircrack-ng

• Kismet

• Wireshark

• Metasploit Framework

• Burp suite

• John the Ripper

• Social Engineering Toolkit

• Airodump-ng

• Maltego

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD KALI LINUX FROM ITS OFFICIAL WEBSITE https://www.kali.org/downloads/

We will posting many others articles on the uses of kali linux ahead so stay tuned

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