Kali Linux contains a large number of very useful tools that are beneficial to information security professionals. One set of such tools belongs to the Pass-the-Hash toolkit, which includes favorites such as pth-winexe among others, already packaged in…
How to Nuke your Encrypted Kali Installation
There’s been a fair amount of discussion around the recently introduced LUKS nuke patch we added to the cryptsetup package in Kali Linux. We wanted to take this opportunity to better explain this feature, as well as demonstrate some useful approa…
Kali Linux 1.0.6 Release
Kernel 3.12, LUKS nuke, Amazon AMI / Google Compute images and more!
It’s been a while since our last minor release which makes 1.0.6 a more significant update than usual. With a new 3.12 kernel, a LUKS nuke feature, new Kali ARM build scripts, a…
Emergency Self Destruction of LUKS in Kali
Kali Linux Full Disk Encryption
As penetration testers, we often need to travel with sensitive data stored on our laptops. Of course, we use full disk encryption wherever possible, including our Kali Linux machines, which tend to contain the most sensi…
Ultimate Pentesting PwnBox (2013) – Utilite Pro
We’re always on the lookout for and interesting ARM hardware for Kali Linux. Whether it’s a Galaxy Note or a USB stick sized SS808, we want to see Kali run on it. You can therefore imagine our excitement, when we first laid our eyes on the …
Is MAM Identity and Access Management’s next big thing?
Mobile Application Management is making waves. Recent news from Oracle, IBM, and Salesforce highlight the market interest. It’s a natural extension of what you’ve been hearing at Identity trade shows over the past few years (and this year’s Gartner IAM…
Kali Linux 1.0.5 and Software Defined Radio
Today we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kali Linux 1.0.5 with a rollup of various tool additions, fixes, and upgrades, including our fix for the encrypted encrypted LVM installation issue that we documented last week. As usual, u…
Kali Linux on Android using Linux Deploy
Kali Linux on any Android Phone or Tablet
Getting Kali Linux to run on ARM hardware has been a major goal for us since day one. So far, we’ve built native images for the Samsung Chromebook, Odroid U2, Raspberry Pi, RK3306, Galaxy Note 10.1,…
Tracking and Fixing an Installer Bug
A little while back, a bug with the LVM encrypted install in Kali Linux 1.0.4 was reported in our bug tracker. This bug was high priority in our TODO as encrypted installs are an important feature in our industry so we wanted to squash this bug ASAP. T…
Kali Linux – Penetration Testing Platform
Whenever we are given the opportunity to describe Kali Linux, we use the word “powerful”. Have you ever wondered or asked yourself why exactly we consider Kali to be so “Powerful”? Why is Kali any different or better from say, a…