Kali Linux 2016.2 Released as the Most Advanced Penetration Testing Distribution

The Kali Linux (successor of BackTrack) developers are back from the DEF CON Vegas and Black Hat conferences for security professionals and ethical hackers, and, as they promised earlier this year, they're now announcing the availability of Kali Linux 2016.2.

What's Kali Linux 2016.2? Well, it's an updated Live ISO image of the popular GNU/Linux distribution designed for ethical hackers and security professionals who want to harden the security of their networks, which contains the latest software versions and enhancements for those who want to deploy the OS on new systems.

It's been quite some time since the last update to the official Kali Linux Live ISOs and new software releases are announced each day, which means that the packages included in the previous Kali Linux images are very old, and bugs and improvements are always implemented in the most recent versions of the respective security tools.

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