the release of the distribution , designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through the public . For downloading three ISO image options with sizes 1, 2.8, and 3.5 GB. Builds are available for x86, x86_64, ARM (armhf and armel, Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, ARM Chromebook, Odroid) architectures. In addition to the basic build with GNOME, trimmed versions are offered with Xfce, KDE, MATE, LXDE, and Enlightenment e17.
Kali includes one of the most comprehensive sets of tools for cybersecurity professionals: from tools for testing web applications and penetrating wireless networks to programs for reading data from RFID identification chips. It comes with a collection of exploits and over 300 specialized utilities for security assessment, such as Aircrack, Maltego, SAINT, Kismet, Bluebugger, Btcrack, Btscanner, Nmap, p0f. Additionally, the distribution includes tools for accelerating password cracking (Multihash CUDA Brute Forcer) and WPA key cracking (Pyrit) through the use of CUDA and AMD Stream technologies, allowing the use of NVIDIA and AMD GPUs for computational operations.
In the new release:
- Updated versions of the included components, including the use of Linux kernel 5.2 (previously supplied with kernel 4.19) and updated versions of
Burp Suite,
HostAPd-WPE,
Hyperion,
Kismet and Nmap; - supplied
