Kali Linux 2017.2 Releases With these features

Release of kali Linux 2017.2

On September 20,2017, the Offensive security releases its latest update for the famous Penetration testers OS kali Linux.The can comes with many updates and brings some great tools or the toolkits for doing the penetration testing.

Before this there should the Kali 2017.1 rolling version released which have some issues or the problems So that the offensive security releases the next upgraded version of the kali linux. As the great success achieved by this OS there are the regular updates comes in this distribution. The Kali Linux is the Debian based OS in which it follows the rules and the archiecture of the Debian.

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As the releases of this famous OS starts in the 2013.After that many versions of the Kali comes .

List of Kali versions are:-

1) 13 March 2013 :-  Kali Linux 1.0

2) 14 march 2013 :- Kali Linux 1.0.4

3) 27 march 2013 :- Kali Linux 1.0.6

4) 26 April 2013 :- Kali Linux 1.0.7

5) 25 July 2013 :- Kali Linux 1.0.8

6) 05 September 2013 :- Kali Linux 1.0.9

7) 09 February 2015 :- Kali Linux 1.1.0

8) 12 August 2015:- Kali Linux 2.0

9) 21 January 2016 :- Kali Linux 16.1

10) 31August 2016 : Kali Linux 16.2

11) 25 April 2017 :- Kali Linux 17.1

12) 20 August 2017 :- Kali Linux 17.2 (latest version)

There are many features and the tools comes under this destro 

1) hurl:- This is the tool which is same as the nano editor in the Kali.As it also do the manipulation in the binary or the hexadecimal files.The hurl tool is light weight and the trust able tool in the kali.

2) phishery:- As the name suggest phishery relates to phishing . With the phishery yo can insert a SSL based auto phishing URL on the target system that can acts in the .docx word document file.

3) apt2:- It stands for Advance Penetration Testing Toolkit which is used for doing the own scans and runs or import the results of the scanners and takes the specific action on them.

4) dbeaver:- It is the database manager tool which manages the popular databases like SQL,PostgreSql,oracle,DB2,Sqlite etc.

5) ssh-audit:- It is the tool which can audit the SSH connections in the encrypted  way.Checks for the encrypted types,banners and the Compression techniques can be analysed by it.

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These are some of the great tools provided by the Kali Linux to do the penetration testing.

There are many more packages also comes in it but these are the top most packages. As you all can 

notice that the kali can regularly updates it tools and the services so that its users can always take the advantage of using the latest and the upgraded tools.

If you can know this in the video form then there is our video in below:-

After watching this video you will get the idea that how these tools are relate for and how they are important for the penetration testing.

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