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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’re really happy with how it’s looking …
So some of the more fun bugs involve one team saying, “Heh, we don’t need to validate input, we just pass data through to the next layer.” And the the next team is like, “Heh, we don’t need to validate input, it’s already clean by the time it reaches us.” The fun comes when you […]
So I went ahead and did a podcast with Stewart Baker, former general counsel for the NSA and actually somebody I have a decent amount of respect for (Google set me up with him during the SOPA debate, he understood everything I had to say, and he really applied some critical pressure publicly and behind the […]
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Last week we received an email from a fellow penetration tester, requesting official Kali Linux Docker images that he could use for his work. We bootstrapped a minimal Kali Linux 1.1.0a…
The nicer weather starts the beginning of “Summer Programs” that many home security companies employ to generate door to door home security systems sales. The Summer Program consists of security companies hiring temporary workers that go door to door a…
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 updates are fairly significant, and may even change your …
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 overlooked vulnerable items. For this reason, we’ve manu…
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 mix of unprecedented hardware support as well as rock solid…
Everyone already knows there are privacy issues related to social media and new technologies. Non-tech-oriented friends and family members often ask me questions about whether they should avoid Facebook messenger or flashlight apps. Or whether it’s OK …
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 vulnerable ISOs, we’ve rolled up new images for our Kali…