Week 9 -KALI


 Hacktivism:  a label associated with movement of people that use their hacking/cracking know-how to carry out their personal view of justice.

Purpose: The purpose of this blog is to identify who fits within the hacktivist label, and how do they affect professional/personal internet interactions?

Today's Topic: Discuss a simple overview of Kali Linux.

Kali Linux is a distribution of Linux that contains tons of software that is specifically purposed to aid a hacker or cracker. Kali Linux is a free to download software, and it has several version that can be installed on different devices.

Kali Linux contains a slew of software that can assist an individual in several ways.

Wireless Networks: AirCrack is a software programs that captures data and reverse engineers the password out to break WEP/WPA wireless network security

Websites: The free version of Burp Suite is included with Kali and provides its users an analysis on websites. This helps identify potentional vulnerabilites that require some attention.

Password Attackers: Hydra is a program that applies brute force principles to attack password locked programs and sites. It goes through a attempts ten's of thousands of passwords

Download Kali: tools.kali.org

Check out: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2291215/security/security-139872-top-10-security-tools-in-kali-linux-1-0-6.html#slide4

Future Items of Interest:
-What are the repercussions of being a hacktivist?
-What seem to be the most common exploits or attacks hackers and hacktivists use?