Kali Linux 2018.1 released

• AMD Secure Memory Encryption, a new feature in the AMD processors that enables automatic encryption and decryption of DRAM. The addition of this feature means that systems will no longer be vulnerable to cold-boot attacks because, even with physical access, the memory will be not be readable.
• Increased Memory Limits – This release also includes a support for 5-level paging, a new feature of the upcoming processors. These new processors will support 4 PB (petabytes) of physical memory and 128 PB of virtual memory.
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Several packages including zaproxy, secure-socket-funneling, pixiewps, seclists, burpsuite, dbeaver, and reaver have been updated in Kali 2018.1. Also, for those using Hyper-V to run Kali virtual machines provided by Offensive Security, the Hyper-V virtual machine is now generation 2. This means, the Hyper-V VM is now UEFI-based and supports expanding/shrinking of HDD. The generation 2 also includes Hyper-V integration services, which supports Dynamic Memory, Network Monitoring/Scaling, and Replication.

Know more about Kali’s latest release on the Kali Linux Blog.