Hello Everyone
as announced at the end of 2019 to ditch the root user policy, Kali Linux finally launches its first release of 2020 with a non-root user model and other major changes.
Moving toward the primary OS, Kali still deters to use the latest release for general purposes. Kali Linux 2020.1 is mainly recommended for professional penetration testers and security specialists.
Changes in the default credentials – Kali is abandoning the default ‘root/toor’ credentials and moving to ‘kali/kali’. This is a very big change as root has been the default for Kali since its inception.
Kali Single Installer Image – The Offensive Security team, having audited what images are downloaded most often from the platform, has completely restructured and simplified the images that will be released going forward. From now on there will be an installer image, a live image, and a network installer image, allowing for easier selection of the right image for each user while also increasing flexibility. There will no longer be separate images for every desktop environment.
Nethunter Changes – Kali’s Mobile pen-testing platform, Kali Nethunter, will no longer require users to root their phones to run it.
New Packages – While Kali is a rolling distribution and therefore users don’t need to wait for the “next release” for updates, the team has added several new tools since Kali 2019.4, including `cloud-enum`, `email harvester`, `phpggc`, `sherlock`, `splinter`.
Tutorial:
Version:
Download Link:
Official:
Enjoy
as announced at the end of 2019 to ditch the root user policy, Kali Linux finally launches its first release of 2020 with a non-root user model and other major changes.
Moving toward the primary OS, Kali still deters to use the latest release for general purposes. Kali Linux 2020.1 is mainly recommended for professional penetration testers and security specialists.
Changes in the default credentials – Kali is abandoning the default ‘root/toor’ credentials and moving to ‘kali/kali’. This is a very big change as root has been the default for Kali since its inception.
Kali Single Installer Image – The Offensive Security team, having audited what images are downloaded most often from the platform, has completely restructured and simplified the images that will be released going forward. From now on there will be an installer image, a live image, and a network installer image, allowing for easier selection of the right image for each user while also increasing flexibility. There will no longer be separate images for every desktop environment.
Nethunter Changes – Kali’s Mobile pen-testing platform, Kali Nethunter, will no longer require users to root their phones to run it.
New Packages – While Kali is a rolling distribution and therefore users don’t need to wait for the “next release” for updates, the team has added several new tools since Kali 2019.4, including `cloud-enum`, `email harvester`, `phpggc`, `sherlock`, `splinter`.
Tutorial:
Version:
Download Link:
Official:
Enjoy
