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 NotSanguine on Monday May 01 2017, @02:17AM
There are no justifications for such behavior, PERIOD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_%28computer_security%29 [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test [wikipedia.org]
https://www.isc2.org/cissp/default.aspx [isc2.org]
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