With the end of 2021 just around the corner, we are pushing out the last or since the
Kali on the Apple M1
As we announced in thanks to the , and for this because the .
As a reminder, virtual machines on Apple Silicon are still limited to arm64 architecture only.
Extended Compatibility for the Samba Client
Starting Kali Linux 2021.4, the . You might want to refer to the ) downloads packages from a ? To be honest, tools no longer look out of place, as it brings support for window themes and icon themes (placed respectively inside /usr/share/themes and /usr/share/icons). This allows the program to properly integrate with the rest of the desktop and avoids the usage of ugly fallback themes.
Here is a comparison of how zenmap (zenmap-kbx ):
- - Open-source Intelligence (OSINT) Framework
- - if you are into Proxmark3 and RFID hacking
- - Scan for open S3 buckets and dump the contents
- - Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history
- , ), but one that is common to all of them is the new window buttons design. Previous buttons were designed to fit the window theme of Xfce but did not work well with the other desktops and lacked personality. The new design looks elegant on any of the desktops and makes it easier to spot the currently focused window.
Xfce
The panel layout has been tweaked to optimize horizontal space and make room for 2 new widgets: the CPU usage widget and the VPN IP widget, which remains hidden unless a VPN connection is established.
Following the steps of other desktops, the task manager has been configured to “icons only”, which, with the slight increase in the panel’s height, makes the overall look cleaner and improves multitasking in smaller displays.
The workspaces overview has been configured to the “Buttons” appearance, as the previous configuration “Miniature view” was too wide and a bit confusing for some users. Now that each workspace button takes less space in the panel, we have increased the default number of workspaces to 4, as it’s a usual arrangement in Linux desktops.
To finish with the modifications, a shortcut to PowerShell has been added to the terminals dropdown menu. With this addition, you can now choose between the regular terminal, root terminal, and PowerShell.
If you prefer the previous configuration for any of the widgets, you can modify or remove them by pressingCtrl + Right-Clickover it.
In addition to the Xfce design tweaks, In the image above, we can also observe the new customized prompt for PowerShell (in the two-line mode). Same as for , it includes an alternative one-line prompt that can be configured with
kali-tweaks.
Bonus Tips For Virtual Desktops!
- You can add or remove workspaces with the shortcuts:
Alt + Insert/Alt + Delete - You can move through workspaces with the shortcuts:
Ctrl + Alt + <ARROW_KEY>to move in the direction of the arrow key.
- (if you add
Shiftyou move the current focused window)
- (if you add
Ctrl + Alt + <WORKSPACE_NUM>to move to a specific workspace, based on its number.Ctrl + Super + <WORKSPACE_NUM>to move a window to a specific workspace, based on its number.
GNOME 41
In this update, GNOME desktop has received not one, but two version bumps. It’s been one year since the last major update of the GNOME desktop in Kali (with GNOME 3.38) and since then there have been two releases of the desktop environment:
All themes and extensions have been updated to support the new shell:
KDE 5.23
The KDE team celebrated its 25th anniversary releasing the update .
How to Upgrade Your Kali Theme
With these theme changes, you may not get them if you , we have a new addition to the NetHunter app: The Social-Engineer Toolkit!
This release features the first module from SET: the Spear Phishing Email Attack, with many more to come - watch this space…
Now you can use the Kali NetHunter app to customise your own Facebook, Messenger, or Twitter direct message email notifications for your social engineering attacks:
Thanks to everyone that contributed to this feature by participating in the have seen a massive amount of changes:
- They are vastly more simplified - thanks to for all of their contributions to make this happen.
- You can now choose which desktop you would like to install (or none at all using
--minimal) - There is even an option of no desktop and no tools (
--slim) if you would like to build a custom image up from scratch
Kali-Docs Updates
- has been added
- The so that you can learn why a package got dropped from Kali.
- Thanks also to guide
Anyone can help out, anyone can get noticed that the venerable
cron. This was not intentional, and it’s now fixed.
Remote Desktop Protocol Audio
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear”, goes the saying. And for those running Kali in a VM and using RDP to connect, it’s been very quiet indeed, as the sound never worked with this configuration. However this long period of silence is coming to an end! Sound should be enabled and work out of the box from now on. If ever it does not, make yourself heard on the ,
python2due it being at already!
Seasoned Kali Linux users are already aware of this, but for the ones who are not, we do also produce . But we gladly take :
CONSOLE┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ cp -rbi /etc/skel/. ~
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f
You should now be on Kali Linux 2021.4. We can do a quick check by doing:
CONSOLE┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION="2021.4"
VERSION_ID="2021.4"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -v
#1 SMP Debian 5.14.16-1kali1 (2021-11-05)
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -r
5.14.0-kali4-amd64
NOTE: The output of
uname -rmay be different depending on the system . We’ll never be able to fix what we do not know is broken! And Twitter is not a Bug Tracker!↗ Original-Artikel auf kali.org lesenVollständiger Original-BerichtAusführliche Details, Code-Beispiele & Hersteller-Stellungnahme auf kali.org. - You can add or remove workspaces with the shortcuts:
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