KALI LINUX - A Hacker's best Companion
A security-focused Operating system is a hacker’s best companion and a heaven for most of the pen-testers. Kali Linux, the most popular OS amongst all other Linux distros, has made it to the top in the cyber field. Nuts and bolts of Kali Linux Kali Linux was released by Offensive Security on March 13, 2013 , which is a rebuild of BackTrack Linux. In order to make penetration testing more effective, Offensive Security decided to replace their vulnerable BackTrack Linux project and started working on Kali based on Debian distribution. Debian is considered as the best distribution for it’s stability and quality of repositories. Kali was made completely focusing on penetration testing and security analysis. This open-source OS is loaded with over 600 tools for performing almost every kind of security based tasks. Also, Live booting capability makes Kali Linux an ideal workstation for pentesting. Few of the most popular pre-installed tools : Metasploit : An open source sec