Parrot Security OS (or ParrotSec) is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. Developed for penetration testing (better safety Computer), Vulnerability and Mitigation, Computer Forensics and Anonymous Surfing. Created by the Italian Frozenbox Team.
ParrotSec or Parrot Security OS offers many tools for analyzing web content and computer systems. It is a laboratory for Forensics digital use, with legally recognized tools that work with cryptography, offering many possibilities. In addition, it allows you to surf and work anonymously.
Parrot is based on Debian's stable Jessie distribution, with a more security-adjusted linux 4.xx Kernel. The distribution is a rolling release.
The new version is called CyberSloop and comes with an updated Linux Kernel in the release 4.9.13.
The interface is MATE, a fork of Gnome 2, and the default display manager is a LightDM.
The program is certified to run on systems that have at least 265Mb of RAM and is suitable for both 32bit (i386) and 64bit (amd64). It also has a special version that works on old 32bit (486) machines. In addition, the program is available for armel and armhf architectures. It also has a version (32bit and 64bit) developed for servers to perform Cloud pentesting.
The development team hasn't exactly identified it frequency of the official releases but according to the changelog of the versions already released, the release frequency of the distributions is monthly.
The new Parrot Security OS 3.6 is here. You can download the ISO you are interested in before the official announcement from the links below:
- Parrot-full-3.6_amd64.iso
- Parrot-full-3.6_i386.iso
- Parrot-lite-3.6_amd64.iso
- Parrot-lite-3.6_i386.iso
- Parrot-studio-3.6_amd64.iso
- signed-hashes.txt