The latest release of the immensely popular Linux distribution designed for penetration testing, Kali Linux 2.0 launched at DefCon 23 in Las Vegas last week. Kali is the successor to BackTrack, and is ...

Penetration testing, often referred to as pen testing, is a critical practice in the field of cybersecurity. It involves simulating cyber-attacks on a system, network, or web application to identify ...

Kali Linux is the world’s most popular offensive-security-optimized Linux distro. Maintained and managed by the fine folks at Offensive Security, Kali was born in 2006 as BackTrack Linux, but after a ...

Today sees the launch of a 90-day interactive virtual training and mentoring program for aspiring security professionals. Named the OffSec Academy, it is produced by Offensive Security and includes ...

In addition to the updated Gnome and KDE Plasma desktop environments, the latest version of Kali Linux 2025.5 also includes new functions and tools. With Kali Linux, security researchers and ...

Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures. The announcement comes after OffSec lost the old repo signing ...

I recently saw the announcement for Kali Linux on Vagrant. I have been a huge fan of Kali Linux for a very long time, and I am interested in virtualization (and currently using VirtualBox in an ...

Cybersecurity professionals and researchers can now launch Kali Linux in a virtualized container on macOS Sequoia using Apple's new containerization framework. During WWDC 2025, Apple announced a new ...

In the last week or so, Kali Linux 2020.3 was released for download. The new update introduced lots of new features but we want to focus on the Windows + Kali Desktop EXperience (Win-KeX), a GUI that ...

News briefs for October 30, 2018. Kali Linux 2018.4 was released yesterday. This is the final release of this year, and it brings the kernel to version 4.18.10, fixes several bugs and has many updated ...