Kali Linux arrives as enterprise-ready version of BackTrack (The H)

[Posted March 13, 2013 by ris]

Offensive Security, provider of Backtrack, has announced the release of Kali Linux. The H takes a look. "Kali's suite of tools includes Metasploit, Wireshark, John the Ripper, Nmap and Aircrack-ng. The applications have been evaluated and selected specifically for suitability and usefulness and do away with the historically accumulated selection that is available in BackTrack. The new desktop interface also includes a category labelled "Top 10 Security Tools", which collects the applications user are most likely to use on a regular basis. All in all, Kali includes approximately 300 different tools."