So this week I saw that the great people from Offensive Security have put out the first 2021 update for Kali!
For those of you who may have not seen my previous blogs/projects using various flavors of Kali here is the basics from the main page:
The Most Advanced
Penetration Testing Distribution
Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.
Why am I excited aside from I always enjoy updating to their latest set of tools? So many new updates and new tools!
But the big reason is an update that affects the Rpi 400 and the previously unsupported built-in wireless:
Kali ARM Updates
As you may have heard, Apple have released new Macs with their own processors, known as Apple Silicon (Apple M1). So far, only Parallels have released something publicly that people can use for virtualization. To that end, we have generated both an installer & live ISOs (kali-linux-2021.1-installer-arm64.iso and kali-linux-2021.1-live-arm64.iso) that can be used with VMs on Apple Silicon Macs. Many thanks to the people who reached out and offered to test and helped us to iron out the bugs. If you’d like to see it in action, David Bombal has put out a video of it.
We have also added support for the Raspberry Pi 400’s wireless card, however it is very important to note that this is not a nexmon firmware, as nexmon does not currently support it.
The Kali ARM build scripts have seen a few more improvements from Francisco Jose Rodriguez Martos and we appreciate the assistance greatly. If you’d like to get involved with ARM, check out the GitLab issue list.
So with that 2 gig download happening I will close this blog entry.