Developers of Black Linux an Arch-based operating system addressed to ethical hackers and penetration testers have announced the release of new ISO respins.
BlackArch Linux (20/12/2016) ISOs are available for download for both two 64 and 32-bit architectures. They come with a new one kernel from the Linux 4.8 stable series, (version 8.4.13), and over 100 new tools for ethical hacking needs, as well as many other improvements.
“Today the new BlackArch Linux ISO has been released (20/12/2016)! Over 1600 tools, newer kernel, over 6GB per ISO and more! We would like to thank all BlackArch users, our mirrors and supporters. Thank you for your help, ”says the announcement, where you will also find the full changelog.
Among the improvements included in BlackArch Linux 20.12.2016, we can mention that all BlackArch tools come in new versions, and that a bug in the removement and shutdown with LXDM display manager resolved.
In addition, many of the window managers such as Openbox, Fluxbox, and Awesome have been updated. Last month, the team announced the availability of tons of new tools in the BlackArch Linux repositories.
These include the racnmap tool for exploit networks, the opendoor OWASP directory access scanner, wafninja for attacking web application firewalls, smalisca a static code analysis tool for Sali files, hoper for URL jumps tracing and novahot, a webshell framework for penetration testers.
With these and many more, today distribution includes more than 1.600 tools (available in the repositories of BlackArch Linux).
You can download the new BlackArch Linux ISO news from the links below. Those who are already using the distribution should simply update their system.
Image | Version | Torrent | Size | SHA1sum |
BlackArch Linux 64 bit Live ISO | 2016.12.20 | Torrent | 6.3 GB | 94626d2b676bd36c779a111add73ba0435f3b32a |
BlackArch Linux 32 bit Live ISO | 2016.12.20 | Torrent | 6.0 GB | 46a5e580c3a2d8c8f27b0fc9517a2b785a1d9c3e |
BlackArch Linux 64 bit Netinstall ISO | 2016.12.20 | Torrent | 456 MB | 3c259b7f8b748b38fdac929f986391fe9336a4ca |
BlackArch Linux 32 bit Netinstall ISO | 2016.12.20 | Torrent | 381 MB | 7e31f2506980888c27c2e8aa44f79b867455d754 |