Kali Linux

Kali Linux (precedentemente nota come BackTrack) è una distribuzione Linux basata su Debian che contiene una collezione di tools per la sicurezza e l’analisi forense. E’ disponibile anche per architettura ARM, ha 4 desktop manager tra cui scegliere, aggiornamenti continui e un modo semplice per aggiornare di versione.

Versione 2018.1

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

Welcome to our first release of 2018, Kali Linux 2018.1. This fine release contains all updated packages and bug fixes since our 2017.3 release last November. This release wasn’t without its challenges–from the Meltdown and Spectre excitement (patches will be in the 4.15 kernel) to a couple of other nasty bugs, we had our work cut out for us but we prevailed in time to deliver this latest and greatest version for your installation pleasure.

Kernel Updated to 4.14

Kali Linux 2018.1 has a shiny new 4.14.12 kernel. New kernels always have a lot of new features and the 4.14 kernel is no exception, although two new features really stand out.

• AMD Secure Memory Encryption Support – Secure Memory Encryption is a feature that will be in newer AMD processors that enables automatic encryption and decryption of DRAM. The addition of this features means that systems will no longer (in theory) be vulnerable to cold-boot attacks because, even with physical access, the memory will be not be readable.
• Increased Memory Limits – Current (and older) 64-bit processors have a limit of 64 TB of physical address space and 256 TB of virtual address space (VAS), which was sufficient for more than a decade but with some server hardware shipping with 64 TB of memory, the limits have been reached. Fortunately, upcoming processors will enable 5-level paging, support for which is included in the 4.14 kernel. In short, this means that these new processors will support 4 PB of physical memory and 128 PB of virtual memory. That’s right, petabytes.

Package Updates

In addition to the updated kernel, we have also upgraded a number of packages, including zaproxy, secure-socket-funneling, pixiewps, seclists, burpsuite, dbeaver, and reaver

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da

• 64 bit (2,8GB): http://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2018.1/kali-linux-2018.1-amd64.iso
• 64 bit torrent: https://images.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-2018.1-amd64.torrent

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://www.kali.org/

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Kali 2016.2 Gnome

Conclusioni

Per aggiornare dalla versione precedente bisogna seguire le istruzioni sul sito.