About Kali Linux Certified Professional

                

Kali Linux Certified Professional (KLCP) is a professional certification from Kali Linux Community that testifies once knowledge and fluency using Kali Linux. If you are new to Information Security and wish to take InfoSec as a career, then you are in a right track for KLCP Certification. In order to learn Kali Learn you can grab ar Hardcopy from Amazon site or can simply download a softcopy from here. To practice Kali Linux, either you can install Kali Linux on your PC/ Laptop (please check hardware configuration to meet system requirement or else you can install it on virtual machine (recommended for beginners). Once you feel comfortable and handy with Kali Linux, go and grab KLCP certification from Pearson VUE. There are  Computer based 80 questions, which you have to complete it in 90 minutes of interval. For more, you can refer Pearson VUE website.s

Kali Linux 2017.2 Released

After 5 months, Kali Linux announces the release of Kali Linux 2017.2. This is a roll-up of all the updates and fixes of its predecessor. From its Debian flavor, Kali Linux 2017.2 has been added with dozens of new tools. Now you have to type "apt install" instead of "apt-get install" command. Few of the new and updated tools that are introduced in Kali Linux 2017.2 are mentioned below:

hurl – a useful little hexadecimal and URL encoder/decoder

phishery – phishery lets you inject SSL-enabled basic auth phishing URLs into a .docx Word document

ssh-audit – an SSH server auditor that checks for encryption types, banners, compression, and more

apt2 – an Automated Penetration Testing Toolkit that runs its own scans or imports results from various scanners, and takes action on them

bloodhound – uses graph theory to reveal the hidden or unintended relationships within Active Directory

crackmapexec – a post-exploitation tool to help automate the assessment of large Active Directory networks

dbeaver – powerful GUI database manager that supports the most popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, and many more

brutespray – automatically attempts default credentials on discovered services

Update Kali Linux 2017.1 via repository

I came to a peculiar situation when I tried to update Kali Linux 2017.1 via terminal. It shows me "Reading package lists... Done".

Then I navigate "sources.list" file to check if the repository in present or not. And, found the link to the repository was missing.

I added the repository link and saved the file.

And, then I tried to update Kali Linux 2017.1 via terminal and I was taking update.

Further I typed upgrade command and it worked too.