By Lucas Paus
Perhaps, if you have ever thought about becoming a
hacker or studying to be an IT security auditor, you might have wondered, “How
do I do such and such?” or “What tools are used for that?” Linux pentesting
distributions are useful and versatile tools for testing security on different
platforms.
And while a lot of security auditors stay faithful
to their preferred distributions, let’s honor the saying “new year, new you” by
giving ourselves the luxury of highlighting some new tools and looking at how
to choose the one that suits us best. The idea is to offer a starting point for
getting to know some of the most popular distributions for different aims and
purposes.
News! The well-known and much-loved Kali has
been updated
Late in November 2017, the wait was finally over.
For all the users excited about it, a new update finally came out for this
well-known distribution. What am I talking about? “Version 2017.3”, of
course. The new features included all the patches, fixes, and updates to the
tools and Kernel that were released over the preceding period, which is no
small matter, especially if you use Maltego or SET.
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