Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Introduction To Kali Linux


Kali Linux is a debian based operating system. Kali linux use by penetration tester  for pentesting and digital forensic. Kalilinux is developed and maintained by Offensive Security Ltd.Kali Linux is completely free and open source .Source code of kali linux is available on the http://git.kali.org/gitweb/. As Kali linux is open sourced, any user can make changes in kalilinux packages and rebuilt it as per their need.

Kali 
linux contain more than 600 penetration testing tools.These tools are used by penetration tester for vulnerability assessment and security implementation. Apart from pentester, Hacker also using the kali linux for finding the vulnerability and exploiting the vulnerability to gain access to victim computer. 

Pentesters and Hackers use the kali linux tool for various purpose as given below:
  • Information gathering
  • Vulnerability Analysis
  • Web Application Analysis
  • Database Assessment
  • Password Attack
  • Wireless Attack
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Exploitation Tools
  • Sniffing and Spoofing
  • Post Exploitation
  • Forensics
  • Reporting Tools
  • System Services

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