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 security framework, Metasploit provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. Also, it is used to develop and execute exploit code against a remote target system.

Nmap: Nmap is a free and open-source security scanner and is one of those useful tools that is basically used to discover hosts and services on a network.

Wireshark: It is again a tool that is used on networks. Wireshark is a packet analyzer and is used for network troubleshooting and analysis.

John the Ripper: It is a password cracking tool. John the Ripper was initially a Unix-based tool, but now it can be used in 15 different platforms.

Aircrack-ng: It is one of the most popular tools in Kali. Aircrack-ng is a packet sniffer tool that works on any wireless network interface controller and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic.

Coming to the bottom line hacking can be done on any platform whether it is Linux or any other OS. But the name Kali provokes some curiosity in the users and makes them to have a deeper look into the OS. From the start, back in 2013's, Kali has gained tremendous popularity in the field of penetration testing. Compared to other OSes Kali is a bit difficult to use, but if you seriously  want to explore this amazing world of pentesting and cybersecurity then no doubt Kali is preferred option.

-By Omkar Thipparthi

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