Tag: Kali

Kali for Intel Edison

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hackgnar has a new blog post out, showing how to build Kali for Edison targets:

Building Kali Linux for Intel Edison: This documentation goes though the process of manually building a base Kali Linux image for the Intel Edison board. These steps were derived from frankensteining the edison build scripts for Debian Jessie and some of the Kali Linux ARM build scripts. All of the content from this post can be found in my github repo for this project here, along with pre compiled images (coming soon!) and ansible scripts for automated building. Note, all of these steps were tested in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x64 LTS. As of this writing, this OS/Version has the most support for doing Edison source builds. I have done these steps in other operating systems, but the process is not as clean due to bugs, script tweaks, etc. […]

http://www.hackgnar.com/2016/02/building-kali-linux-for-intel-edison.html
https://github.com/hackgnar/kali_intel_edison

Kali 2016.1 UEFI user experience notes

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Debian Derivative-based Kali just released a new release, with UEFI support, based on upstream Debian. J.A. Watson wrote an article for ZDNet about trying to install the latest release, focusing on UEFI issues. I’ve included a few UEFI-centric excerpts below. Additionally it sounds like the Kali Mini version is based on Debian netinstall, “but it doesn’t boot on a UEFI system”.

[…]  To top it all off, the new distribution is UEFI compatible, and installed without any problem on the systems I have tried so far. This is really the best news of all for me, because I have spent huge amounts of time fighting to get the previous Kali distributions properly loaded and configured on UEFI systems (NOT in Legacy boot mode). […]  It looks to me like what they have finally done is what I thought they should have been doing all along – they simply use the Debian installer, which has been able to deal with UEFI for ages. […] The new ISO images can be obtained from the Kali Downloads page, and these are also a pretty impressive creation. They can be booted in (normal) Live mode, in (forensic) Live mode, or they can be directly installed. As far as I can tell there is no way to install from a Live boot, and I consider that to be a good thing because the previous Live installers didn’t work worth beans on UEFI firmware systems. […] The bottom line is, the new Kali release is here, it’s beautiful, it works, even on UEFI firmware. […]

Full article:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hand-on-with-kali-linux-rolling/
https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-rolling-edition-2016-1/

Rapi7 restores Metaspoit to Kali

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An update to this older post:

Kali 2.0 ships …without Metasploit

Metasploit is back in Kali!

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/10/20/kali-2-new-operating-systems-support

Great news, thanks Rapid7!

Now if you could just rewrite it in Python. 🙂

 

Kali 2.0 ships …without Metasploit

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Kali releases 2.0:
https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/
https://www.kali.org/downloads/

But now Kali no longer includes Metasploit:

“At the request of Rapid7, we have removed the Metasploit Community / Pro package from Kali Linux and now host the open-source metasploit-framework package only. For all of you who require Community or Pro, you will now need to download it from Rapid7 and then register and submit your personal details in order to get a license. In addition, the Rapid7 team no longer maintains the Metasploit package in Kali, which has brought with it some substantial changes – we’ve moved to a “native” setup, where rather than bundling all the required software needed to run Metasploit in one big package, we use native dependencies within Kali to support the metasploit-framework package. This results in a faster, smoother work experience and easier integration with Metasploit dependencies. For more information about this, check out our Metasploit Framework in Kali documentation page.”

In related ironic news, Rapid7 gave out Open Source love tshirts at DEF CON 23:
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/07/30/weekly-metasploit-wrapup
I wonder long long it’ll take for Rapid7 to make Metasploit a commercial-only product? 😦