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Kali Linux LUKS Encrypted USB Persistence
Kali Linux

May 27, 2014

2 min read

Kali Encrypted USB Persistence

A couple of days ago, we added an awesome new feature to Kali allowing users to set up a Live Kali USB with encrypted persistence. What this means is that you can now set up a bootable Kali USB drive allowing you to either boot to a “clean” Kali image or alternatively, overlay it with the contents of a persistent encrypted partition, allowing you to securely save your changes on the USB drive between reboots. If you add our LUKS nuke feature into this mix together with a 32GB USB 3.0 thumb drive, you’ve got yourself a fast, versatile and secure “Penetration Testing Travel Kit”.

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Kali Linux Recipes

Kali Linux

Kali Linux Recipes

A couple of days ago, we received an e-mail from a university professor asking for advice regarding Linux distributions to be used in his security 101 classes. In its default configuration, Kali Linux wasn’t a 100% match for his needs, which were quite specific:

Apr 23, 2014

2 min read
Kali Linux Trademarks

Kali Linux

Kali Linux Trademarks

It’s been a year since we’ve released Kali Linux, and we’re happy to see it succeed. Kali has surpassed BackTrack Linux in many ways and the community is responding accordingly. Between the improved development cycle, more attentive support, and larger community, Kali Linux has reached new heights of popularity. This popularity however, does not come without its own issues. One of the big problems we’ve been facing in the past year is rampant violations of our Kali Linux Trademarks.

Mar 17, 2014

2 min read
Kali Linux Custom Raspberry Pi ® Script

Kali Linux

Generating Kali Raspberry Pi Images

“Kali Linux Raspberry Pi Image Updated!” That was supposed to be the “tweet” we would release, telling everyone our new Kali Linux Raspberry Pi image was supposedly better than our old one. We often update our followers with news like this on twitter, and this tweet would be no different. However, this time, we thought it would be interesting to tell you about the mechanics of updates like these, and shed some light on how these “news items” come about. This post will also give us the opportunity to describe the process of running our custom Kali Linux ARM build scripts, by way of a story. If you couldn’t care less about this story, and just want the updated image – head straight to our Kali Linux Custom Image page!

Jan 27, 2014

5 min read
Exploit Database now on Github

OffSec News

Exploit Database Hosted on GitHub

We have recently completed some renovations on the Exploit Database backend systems and moved the EDB exploit repository to Github. This means that it’s now easier than ever to copy, clone or fork the whole repository. The previous SVN CVS has been retired.

Jan 7, 2014

1 min read
Bug Bounty Insights

Insights

Bug Bounty Program Insights

With the nature of our business, we at Offensive Security take our system security very seriously and we appreciate the benefits of having “the crowd” scrutinize our internet presence for bugs. For this reason, we recently started our own Bug Bounty Program, which provides incentives for researchers to inform us of possible vulnerabilities in our sites in exchange for cash rewards.

Dec 23, 2013

5 min read
Penetration Testing With Kali

Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing with Kali Linux – Online Course Update

Over a year ago, when we first sat down and began on what would become Kali Linux, we realized that with all the major changes, we would also need to update our flagship course, Penetration Testing with BackTrack (PWB), to be inline with Kali Linux. With the release of Kali, we ensured that we mentioned the impact this would have on PWB and that an update to the course was in the works.

Dec 19, 2013

3 min read
NDPROXY local SYSTEM exploit CVE-2013-5065

Exploit Development

NDPROXY Local SYSTEM exploit CVE-2013-5065

In the past few days there has been some online chatter about a new Windows XP/2k3 privilege escalation, well documented by FireEye. Googling around, we came across a Twitter message which contained a link to a Chinese vulnerability analysis and PoC.

Dec 4, 2013

1 min read
Offensive Security Penetration Test Report 2013

Enterprise Security

Penetration Test Report 2013

We are proud to release a new, updated, sample penetration test report. This report accurately reflects the types of assessments we conduct for our clients. It incorporates changes we have made over the last two years based on customer feedback, as well as reflecting many of the types of attacks we have found to be effective in multiple customer environments.

Sep 3, 2013

3 min read
Kali Linux ISO of Doom

Kali Linux

Kali Linux ISO of Doom

In our last blog post, we provided an example of running an unattended network installation of Kali Linux. Our scenario covered the installation of a custom Kali configuration which contained select tools required for a remote vulnerability assessment using OpenVAS and the Metasploit Framework.

Aug 27, 2013

5 min read
Unattended installation with PXE

Kali Linux

Kali Linux Unattended PXE Install

Our last blog post on the Kali Linux site discussed implementing some cool scenarios with Kali Linux, such as remote unattended installations, creating custom Kali Linux ISOS, and getting Kali working on funky ARM hardware. We received several emails from people asking for more information on how to implement these scenarios, so we thought we’d make a few blog posts with more detailed examples.

Aug 12, 2013

4 min read
Kali Linux on a Galaxy Note 10.1

Kali Linux

Kali Linux on a Galaxy Note 10.1

Here at Offsec, we love playing with hardware. Be it something like the Onity Hotel Door Unlocker, a Teensy USB HID attack payload, or RFID hacks – if it’s shiny, we like it. While we were in the last stages of developing Kali Linux, we made the effort to to get Kali working on some ARM hardware, such as the Samsung Chromebook, Odroid U2, Raspberry Pi and RK3306 devices such as the SS808, and then contributed these to the community as “Unofficial Trusted Images”, together with the Official Kali Linux downloads.

Apr 2, 2013

2 min read
Kali Linux a new dawn has come...

Kali Linux

Kali Linux Has Been Released!

Seven years of developing BackTrack Linux has taught us a significant amount about what we, and the security community, think a penetration testing distribution should look like. We’ve taken all of this knowledge and experience and implemented it in our “next generation” penetration testing distribution.

Mar 13, 2013

1 min read

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