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Hi Everyone. I am sharing a great resource from SkullSecurity where you can download password dictionary for various sites. Please check this link: https://wiki.skullsecurity.org/Passwords

Kali Sana (ver. 2.0) has been out there couple of months ago and the response was great. Kali Moto (ver. 1.0) has been given 2 months of grace period to date the version to 2.0. To upgrade, edit the souces.list file and put the following entries. cat >> EOF < /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free EOF Then, run the following command to do upgrade Kali Moto to Kali Sana. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade # get a coffee, or 10. reboot

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 ...

For Laptop user When you are trying your hand on a new OS, it is always a good idea to test that OS in a virtual machine (vmware player, oracle vm virtualbox etc) rather than installing it on a hard drive. By doing so, you can not only save your time and effort but if somehow your OS crashes, due to some or the other reason, then you can re-install it easily. Virtual machine gives you a virtual environment, where you can install multiple OSes and test them easily. It also allows you to connect multiple virtual OSes in a network (every OS shown here represent different machine, that can communicate with each other via virtual ip address). If you have installed Kali Linux on virtual machine, then change the network setting to NAT mode and your virtual OS will now act as wired virtual machine in LAN. But, if you want your virtual OS to connect wireless , then change your network setting to Bridge mode on your virtual machine and it will ask ssid and password to connect to your virtual...

LiveCDList is a good resource on linux based OS. It keeps a track on LiveCD, LiveDVD and LiveUSB. Different Desktop, Server, Gaming, Firewall, Scientific, System Administration, etc based OS are available. A good resource for penetration testers who do not want to install OS on their hard drive. LiveCDs are costs effective and time effective resource available.

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...