<Tr> <Th> Official website </Th> <Td> www.kali.org </Td> </Tr> <P> Kali Linux is a Debian - derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing . It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd . Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns and Raphaël Hertzog are the core developers . </P> <P> Kali Linux has over 600 preinstalled penetration - testing programs, including Armitage (a graphical cyber attack management tool), Nmap (a port scanner), Wireshark (a packet analyzer), John the Ripper password cracker, Aircrack - ng (a software suite for penetration - testing wireless LANs), Burp suite and OWASP ZAP web application security scanners . Kali Linux can run natively when installed on a computer's hard disk, can be booted from a live CD or live USB, or it can run within a virtual machine . It is a supported platform of the Metasploit Project's Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing security exploits . </P> <P> It was developed by Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns of Offensive Security through the rewrite of BackTrack, their previous information security testing Linux distribution based on Knoppix . The third core developer Raphaël Hertzog joined them as a Debian expert . </P>

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