Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack) is an Debian-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools. It features timely security updates, support for the ARM architecture, a choice of four popular desktop environments, and seamless upgrades to newer versions.
Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution with a collection of security, penetration testing and forensics tools. The projects latest release is Kali Linux 2018.2, which includes kernel updates and fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs. "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 support for AMD GPUs and support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which allows for encrypting virtual machine memory such that even the hypervisor cant access it. If you spend any significant amount of time writing exploits, you are undoubtedly familiar with the various Metasploit scripts that are available. You are likely also aware that all of these helpful scripts are tucked away and a little difficult to make use of. Fortunately, as of Metasploit Framework 4.16.34, you can now make use of all these scripts directly as we have included links to all of them in the PATH, each of them pre-pended with msf-.
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Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack) is an Debian-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools. It features timely security updates, support for the ARM architecture, a choice of four popular desktop environments, and seamless upgrades to newer versions.
