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New BlackArch Penetration Testing Linux ISOs Released with More Hacking Tools

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BlackArch Linux based Arch Linux. Lightweight Penetration Testing Distro designed for Professional & Elite Hackers who have the ability to work with Linux like a Pro.

Used to use Fluxbox & OpenBox as a Desktop Environment with other DE’s. It has huge tools in the repository more than 1500+ hacking tool included in the Distro & Repo.

A short ChangeLog of the Live-ISOs:

update blackarch-installer to version 0.6.2 (most important change)
included kernel 4.14.4
updated lot’s of blackarch tools and packages
updated all blackarch tools and packages
updated all system packages
bugfix release! (see blackarch-installer)

Also Read:  Top 10 Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking Linux Distributions – 2017

BlackArch Linux features

– Support for i686, x86_64, armv6h, armv7h and aarch64 architectures
– Over 1800 tools (constantly increasing)
– Modular package groups
– A live ISO with multiple window managers, including dwm, fluxbox,
openbox, awesome, wmii, i3 and spectrwm.
– An 64bit OVA image ready to use with Virtualbox and VMware
– An optional installer with the ability to build from source.

The BlackArch team released the Distro yesterday and it is available to download form BlackArch download page.Default Login root:blackarch.

# To list all of the available tools, run

$ sudo pacman -Sgg | grep blackarch | cut -d’ ‘ -f2 | sort -u

# To install all of the tools, run

$ sudo pacman -S blackarch

SHA1sum
1d26ca4fbcf2485cd0f6962d2229a0b90c5d796b
e06bcad153b0edaa0212e912905263f500d861af

Gurubaran
Gurubaran
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