All those who are in the world of computer security and more specifically those who perform penetration tests, surely they will know about Kali Linux distribution, which is not the only one for this niche, but it is the best known and most used. As many of you may know, it is the distro that also became popular on screen thanks to the Mr. Robot series. So it is great news every time we announce a new release of this distro as is the current case.
From now on we can distribute from the distro Kali Linux 2018.3 which you can download using an ISO image from the project's official website, whether you want to use it in Live mode, install it in a virtual machine or install it on your computer to work with it, making use of the innumerable number of tools to perform security tests that it contains so default this distro. Also, now this new version brings interesting improvements ...
The development community behind this distro has worked hard to launch this Kali Linux 2018.3 version, in this type of release you can expect that the packages have been updated to more recent versions and some bugs have been corrected or a new kernel added. more modern, but in this specific release we will also have available new tools to analyze the security of Apple's mobile operating system, that is, for iOS.
kali is based on Debian, as you know, and it came from the ashes of BackTrack Linux. Well, now, you can use a Linux kernel 4.17 in this new version, with patches for the Specter and Meltdown vulnerabilities in addition to their variants, better power management, improvements in the drivers, updated security tools, and those tools for iOS such as I already said, like idb. Other new tools are also included, such as GDB-PEDA (Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB).
Hi team DesdeLinux Could you make a tutorial or a post about how to install it on Virtual Machines like VBox or VMware, since I have seen countless tutorials and I cannot correctly update the repositories, kernel, java, nodejs, etc... Not having them updated or in their version Specifically, running a program, this prevents me from starting the program in its graphical interface. My antivirus also detects certain files as viruses and deletes them. I would appreciate it, I'm new here and I loved your blog, I'm subscribing!