BlackArch Linux Now Offers Over 1200 Tools for Penetration Testing and Security Research | Linux Today

BlackArch Linux Now Offers Over 1200 Tools for Penetration Testing and Security Research

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Marius Nestor
Mar 30, 2015

The newly released BlackArch Linux 2015.03.29 operating system comes with updated pacman.conf settings, updated blackarch-install-scripts tool (version 0.8), updated /etc/motd and /etc/issue files, a new boot splash screen for both GRUB and Syslinux, various tweaks to the ISO builds, and more than 150 new tools.

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Marius Nestor

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