Kali Linux is developed by the security firm Offensive Security. It’s a Debian-based rewrite of their previous Knoppix-based digital forensics and penetration testing distribution BackTrack. To quote the official web page title, Kali Linux is a “Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution”.

Can Kali Linux be hacked?

1 Answer. Yes, it can be hacked. No OS (outside of some limited micro kernels) has proven perfect security. It is theoretically possible to do, but nobody has done it and even then, there would be know way to know it is implemented after the proof without building it yourself from the individual circuits on up.

Is Kali Linux is safe?

Kali Linux is good at what it does: acting as a platform for up to date security utilities. But in using Kali, it became painfully clear that there is a lack of friendly open source security tools and an even greater lack of good documentation for these tools.