HOW TO DOWNLOAD KALILINUX

                  HOW TO DOWNLOAD KALILINUX

Unlikesomeotheroperatingsystems,KaliLinuxmakesgettingstartedeasy,thankstothefactthat itsdiskimagesareliveISOs,meaningthatyoucanbootthedownloadedimagewithoutfollowing anypriorinstallationprocedure. Thismeansyoucanusethesameimagefortesting,foruseas abootableUSBorDVD-ROMimageinaforensicscase,orforinstallingasapermanentoperating systemonphysicalorvirtualhardware. Becauseofthissimplicity,itiseasytoforgetthatcertainprecautionsmustbetaken. Kaliusers areoftenthetargetofthosewithillintentions,whetherstatesponsoredgroups,elementsoforganizedcrime,orindividualhackers. Theopen-sourcenatureofKaliLinuxmakesitrelativelyeasy tobuildanddistributefakeversions,soitisessentialthatyougetintothehabitofdownloading fromoriginalsourcesandverifyingtheintegrityandtheauthenticityofyourdownload. Thisis especiallyrelevanttosecurityprofessionalswhooftenhaveaccesstosensitivenetworksandare entrustedwithclientdata.

2.1.DownloadingaKaliISOImage

2.1.1. Where to Download

TheonlyofficialsourceofKaliLinuxISOimagesistheDownloadssectionoftheKaliwebsite. Due toitspopularity,numeroussitesofferKaliimagesfordownload,buttheyshouldnotbeconsidered trustworthyandindeedmaybeinfectedwithmalwareorotherwisecauseirreparabledamageto yoursystem. è https://www.kali.org/downloads/ ThewebsiteisavailableoverHTTPS,makingitdifficulttoimpersonate. Beingabletocarryout aman-in-the-middleattackisnotsufficientastheattackerwouldalsoneeda www.kali.org certificatesignedbyaTransportLayerSecurity(TLS)certificateauthoritythatistrustedbythevictim’sbrowser.Becausecertificateauthoritiesexistpreciselytopreventthistypeofproblem,they deliver certificates only to people whose identities have been verified and who have provided evidencethattheycontrolthecorrespondingwebsite.

cdimage.kali.org Thelinksfoundonthedownloadpagepointtothecdimage.kali.orgdomain,which redirects to a mirror close to you, improving your transfer speed while reducing the burden on Kali’s central servers. A list of available mirrors can be found here: è http://cdimage.kali.org/README.mirrorlist

2.1.2. What to Download

TheofficialdownloadpageshowsashortlistofISOimages,asshowninFigure 2.1,“ListofImages OfferedforDownload”[page15].

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