Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store (microsoft.com) 69
You can now download and install Kali Linux via the Windows Store. From a blog post on MSDN: Our community expressed great interest in bringing Kali Linux to WSL in response to a blog post on Kali Linux on WSL. We are happy to officially introduce Kali Linux on WSL.
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There are plenty of distributions targeted at "People who want to learn and use Linux". This one is targeted at a different group of users. And that's OK.
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Agreed. What does this have to do with Trump and The Russians!?
Why care... (Score:1)
Why care? Because this is step 1 of 3.
Step 1: Embrace.
Just two more to go.
I recommend The Scorpion and the Frog for further reading.
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NOT if it is running on top of Win10. That's like bolting a Pratt & Whitney Turbine to the frame of a Cessna 152.
WSL?? (Score:3)
What is WSL? From Google, it seems to be the World Surf League.
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Kali
Linux
Windows Store
World Surfing League
Seems legit.
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An indication that you don't read Slashdot enough.
https://slashdot.org/index2.pl... [slashdot.org]
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I would have had FIRST POST, except as I typed my magnum opus windows rebooted to install updates. At least I wasn't in front of 200 people doing a presentation like last month.
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>> except as I typed my magnum opus windows rebooted to install updates...
Speak to the team responsible for pushing your Windows Updates. There are options to nag you to reboot the machine many times before it is force rebooted. There is no *technical* reason they should be rebooting out from under you unless you've ignored and snoozed and deferred a bunch of times.
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cobbling a well supported and powerful standalone Linux distribution together with the haggard proprietary burro of Microsoft Windows serves no immediate purpose other than bragging rights.
And getting around the IT department blocking anything that isn't a Windows machine.
If your response to the above comment is along the lines of "That's stupid! Get better IT people!", I don't get consulted on the hiring of executives, nor get veto power over the C_Os issuing edicts.
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You'd have a far better user experience running VirtualBox on Windows with Linux as a guest than you would with WSL
Bridged network shows there is a non-Windows machine on the network, and NAT isn't exactly ideal for a network tool.
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If you want to install Kali and you are not part of the IT department that makes the decisions on what gets installed, you should not have the ability to install Kali.
Kali, like Linux or any other piece of software, when unmanaged in the whole structure of the security stance an organization has is a security threat. Either you have the ability to install what you like security wise because that is your job or you should never have the right to install such things.
You can pretend to be an information securi
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If you want to install Kali and you are not part of the IT department that makes the decisions on what gets installed, you should not have the ability to install Kali.
In the real world, there are people who are paid to develop and test products that are sold to other parties. Shockingly enough, the people that do this work are not the network administrators.
You can pretend to be an information security professional in your off time. Doing it at work makes more problems for those of us that actually are security professionals.
Wow, you sound exactly like the wonderful executives that came up with the Windows only edict.
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But building a house on such shaky foundations is still questionable.
Who uses Kali Linux? (Score:2)
Why would anyone use Kali over just using Debian and adding the packages they need? Is it some kind of 1337 H/\X0R cred thing?
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There, fixed it up for ya.
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Re:Who uses Kali Linux? (Score:4, Informative)
Kali is very quiet. When you fire up Wireshark or TCPDump you don't have to go turn a bunch of things off to get to a noiseless trace.
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I wish I had mod points for this AC:
>> "Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing."
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>Kali Linux (previously known as BackTrack) has nothing to do with MSDN other than someone at Microsoft mentioning it now for the first time after 5 years of development that had nothing to do with Microsoft. It continues to be maintained by Offensive Security, an organization with no ties to Microsoft other than teaching people how to break Micro
That's nice (Score:2)
Now where's Fedora!?
What's the point? (Score:1)
WSL doesn't currently support raw sockets, so you can't really do a pen-test from WSL. This feels like script kiddie pandering.
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Subejcto (Score:1)
Well, that seems pointless to me. For most of the tools in Kali you need to power of the Linux Kernel to directly control hardware like the wifi card. e.g. Kali/aireplay isn't very useful if you can put the interface into promiscuous mode.
Kali (Score:2)
A ten-armed god with her hands on everything.
No thanks. I'm already not running systemd for similar reasons.
Restrictions are in Place to Download Kali Linux (Score:1)
Some explain this to me (Score:2)
New for Nerds? (Score:2)
This is so far removed from this site's original concept...
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