Think passwords, people. Think long, complex passwords. Not because a breach dump's landed, but because the security-probing-oriented Kali Linux just got better at cracking passwords.
Kali is a Debian-based Linux that packs in numerous hacking and forensics tools. It's well-regarded among white hat hackers and investigators, who appreciate its inclusion of the tools of their trades.
The developers behind the distro this week gave it a polish, adding new images optimised for GPU-using instances in Azure and Amazon Web Services. The extra grunt the GPUs afford, Kali's backers say, will enhance the distribution's password-probing powers. There's also better supoprt for GPU cracking, hence our warning at the top of this story: anyone can use Kali and there's no way to guarantee black hats won't press it into service. And they can now do so on as many GPU-boosted cloud instances as they fancy paying for.
Could some users of Kali Linux technically be called "thugs?"
(Score: 2) by http on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:50PM (1 child)
It isn't.
But it makes for great security theatre [xkcd.com].
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday May 01 2017, @02:23AM
Looks like a reference to Diceware makes sense in the context of that cartoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware [wikipedia.org]