[JUSTIFY]No, really…that’s not clickbait. For the past few weeks, we’ve been working with the Microsoft WSL team to get Kali Linux introduced into the Microsoft App Store as an official WSL distribution and today we’re happy to announce the availability of the “Kali Linux” Windows application. For Windows 10 users, this means you can simply enable WSL, search for Kali in the Windows store, and install it with a single click. This is especially exciting news for penetration testers and security professionals who have limited toolsets due to enterprise compliance standards.[/JUSTIFY] [JUSTIFY]While running Kali on Windows has a few drawbacks to running it natively (such as the lack of raw socket support), it does bring in some very interesting possibilities, such as extending your security toolkit to include a whole bunch of command line tools which are present in Kali. While not officially supported by WSL yet, we’ve tested running a desktop manager such as XFCE on WSL’d Kali…and it seems to work quite well. We will update our blog with more news and updates regarding the development of this app as it’s released. We’ve created a short movie demonstrating the installation of XFCE on WSL to give a sense of the possibilities this app provides.[/JUSTIFY] [JUSTIFY]We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the WSL team at Microsoft, and specifically @tara_msft for all the assistance and guidance with which this feat would not be possible. We hope you enjoy WSL’d Kali on Windows 10![/JUSTIFY] Continue reading...
