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More exciting news! In the past year, Kali Linux Official Team has been working internally on an Official Kali Linux book – Kali Linux Revealed: Mastering the Penetration Testing Distribution . This is the first official Kali book from Offsec Press , and is scheduled for release on June 5th, 2017 . Kali Linux Revealed will be available in both hard copy and online formats. Keeping the Kali Linux spirit, the online version of the book will be free of charge, allowing anyone who wishes to hone their skills and improve their knowledge of Kali to do so at no cost. This book, together with our official Kali documentation site will encompass the body of knowledge for the Kali Linux Certified Professional   (KLCP) .

      Link: https://www.blackhat.com/us-16/kali-linux.html Join the Lab session on 4th August, 2016 at Mandalay Bay Hotel.

Kali Linux  has been released yesterday, 11-Aug-2015. Kali Linux 2.0 is now with a major release in tools, distribution and user interface since March 2013. Here are the major changes that you can see in Kali Linux 2.0. new 4.0 kernel based on Debian Jessie improved hardware and wireless drivers support for variety of Desktop Environments (GNOME, KDE, xfce, mate, e17, lxde, i3wm) updated penetration testing tools and much more.

Hi Everyone. Today I am going to show you how to create bootable usb in Kali Linux using line utility. There are several 3rd party utilities available in the market, some of them are UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer, YUMI and RMPrepUSB. These all are GUI-based utilities. But, today I am going to create a linux bootable usb using dd (device driver). dd is a simple command line program that is pre-installed in almost linux based operating systems. It is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool. It can be used to copy from source to destination, block-by-block, regardless of their filesystem types or operating systems. Below screen-shot shows you how to create bootable usb using dd command. Tested on: Kali Linux 1.1.0a (64-bit) I logged in as a superuser . For normal user, please run sudo or su command to complete the task. STEP : Before we begin, please check the partition of your hard drive. Open terminal and run fdisk -l .  Now, plug in formatted (in fat32) usb drive and ...

About   Synaptic Package Manager Synaptic Package Manager is GTK+- based GUI for apt (Advance Packaging Tool)- the package management used by Debian and its derivatives. Synaptic Package Manager- a very handy tool, used to install, remove and update software packages and add repositories . Though, based on deb packages but can be used on the system bsed on RPM packages. Features Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages System-wide upgrade Package search utility Manage package repositories Find packages by name, description and several other attributes Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter Sort packages by name, status, size or version Browse available online documentation related to a package Download the latest changelog of a package Lock packages to the current version Force the installation of a specific package version Undo/Redo of selections Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager Allows creation of download scrip...

Kali Linux has now matured within two years, from its initial release. Kali Linux 1.1.0 has been on 7th Feb 2015, with more flexible Linux distribution, rich in security and penetration testing features on varied ARM hardware. For more please read this article  Kali Linux 1.1.0 Realeased . ISO Download: https://www.kali.org/downloads/ Kali Linux Releases: http://kali4hackers.blogspot.in/p/kali-linux-releases.html

NetHunter, built on top is Kali Linux, is Andriod penetration testing platform that works on Nexus devices. With all the features of Kali tools , NetHunter has the ability to get a full VNC session from your phone to a graphical Kali chroot. A joint effort between the Kali community member “BinkyBear” and Offensive Security. NetHunter supports Wireless 802.11 frame injection , one-click MANA Evil Access Point setup, HID keyboard ( Teensy like attacks), as well as BadUSB MITM attacks – and is built upon the sturdy shoulders of the Kali Linux distribution and toolsets. Supported Devices: Nexus 4 (GSM) Nexus 5 (GSM/LTE) Nexus 7 [2012] (Wi-Fi) Nexus 7 [2012] (Mobile) Nexus 7 [2013] (Wi-Fi) Nexus 7 [2013] (Mobile) Nexus 10 Current Release:   v1.0.2 Download Link: NetHunter

Pleas find the link below for Kali Linux Installation guide on different ARM Architecture. Link: Kali Linux on ARM Architecture

Please find the link below for several customize VMware and ARM images. This link re-direct to the updated and customize VMWare and ARM Images. Link: Kali Linux Custom VMWare and ARM Images

Kali Linux 1.0.9 release now provides support for the last Raspberry Pi B+ ARM computer. It has also included two more images for the Odroid U3 and Cubox-i ARM computers. There are also a long list of bug fixes and updates to existing tools. Please click on the image to go Kali Linux download page.

Kali Linux has launched a website for tools from various different niches of the security and forensics fields. This site aims to list them all and provide a quick reference to these tools. In addition, the versions of the tools can be tracked against their upstream sources. If you find any errors (typos, wrong URLs) please drop a mail to info@kali.org. Link:  http://tools.kali.org/

Kali Linux 1.0.8 has been released with USB EFI boot support. For more, please click here . To Download Kali Linux flavour, please click here .

Kali Linux 1.0.7 released with a new 3.14 kernel. Please click here to know new features of Kali Linux release.

Hi Everyone! this is an updated post on Kali Linux repositories. Well, a repository is an archival source from where Kali Linux softwares are updated and upgraded online. sources.list  is the file where all the links for necessary update are saved. When we execute a command apt-get update , it searches for the updated package online. Un-wanted or un-necessary links can cause failure of Kali Linux package installation, so make sure what link/s should be added to the repository so that Kali Linux should get proper update.  Kali Linux distribution has three repositories, which are mirrored world-wide: http.kali.org ( mirrorlist ): the main package repository ; security.kali.org ( mirrorlist ): the security package repository ; cdimage.kali.org ( mirrorlist ): the repository with ISO images . On a clean installation, Kali Linux, have the following two entries present in /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib deb http://se...

Cheese is an open source application that allows Linux users to access their webcam device and take pictures or created videos with funny effects. It is mostly used under the GNOME desktop environment. The application has no binary packages for a specific Linux distribution, only a source archive that allows advanced users to configure, compile and install it under any Linux-based operating system. STEPS: Before you install Cheese , make sure that you do update kali linux by running apt-get update command. For more please click here , if you didn't added repository. 1. Open terminal and type apt-get install cheese . Allowing it by typing Y  to continue dependency of the package. 2. Once Cheese  is installed successfully, check the installed package from the menu list. Click on Applications--> Sound & Video--> Cheese to open the application.

Before you proceed make sure that you run apt-get update from terminal. Check the necessary repository in sources.list file. For more please read this post . STEPS: 1. Goto www.skype.com  and click on Downloads . 2. Being a Kali Linux user, select Choose your distribution as debian and click Save File to download. 3. Open terminal and locate the downloaded file. 4. Run dkpg -i skype-debian_x.x.x.x_i386.deb (where x is the version of skype) to install the package. 5. Type  skype  to run the program. 6. Accept License agreement.

After installing Kali Linux on hard drive or on virtual machine, we may have come across with a warning message of " Low Disk usage ". It happens when we allocate insufficient disk space during partition for kali linux or else when we do a regular "update" and "upgrade" of patches or downloading softwares. Kali Linux comes with a graphical built-in tool, i.e. Disk Usage Analyzer . This tool helps you to check the disk space usage. There are other options too, to check usage as per file system. If you need to check from terminal(for non-gui users), then there are two classic commands available for every linux distros, i.e.  (a) df : Report file system disk space usage (b) du : Estimate file space usage df command is used to check free disk space. You can type df -h or df -k to list free disk space. It displays statistics about the amount of free disk space on the specified file system or on the file system of which file is a part. Values are displayed in...

There could be various reason for installation failure. Few of the basic reasons are corrupted downloadable file, damage media during writing an iso file, in-sufficient disk space, missing hash file etc. Click here   to open the link and read this article on Troubleshooting Kali Linux Installation.

Below are the links of Kali Linux's ISO images repository that you may found helpful in upgrading or downgrading Kali Linux. Kali Linux 1.0.6 Kali Linux 1.0.5 Kali Linux 1.0.4 Kali Linux 1.0.3 Kali Linux 1.0.2 Kali Linux 1.0

Here are the steps involved to install VirtualBox in Kali Linux. Goto this link  https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads  and select Debian version, either i386 or AMD64(depending upon the platform of your computer have). My system support i386. Select the location to download the file. I chose  Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") and the version of virtualbox is 4.3.2. Once the file is downloaded, open root terminal window and goto the downloaded directory. My default directory is /root/downloads. Now run, dpkg -i virtualbox-x.x.x.x~Debian~wheezy_i386.deb (where x is replaced by version of virtual box) eg.: root@kali:~Downloads# dpkg -i virtualbox-4.3_4.3.2-90405~Debian~wheezy_i386.deb Once we run this command, it de-compress the .deb package, start setting virtualbox environment and checks if any recent update is available. Once setup is installed sucessfully, you can goto Applications to check if VirtualBox in listed there or not.  Applications--> Sys...