How to Remote Desktop to BackTrack 5 from Windows

Lessons from the Oldsmar water facility hack, where attackers used TeamViewer to alter chemical levels: underfunded US water systems rely on remote access and need urgent ICS hardening.

For those of you who aren’t in the loop, BackTrack is a Live Linux distribution that ships with a large number of open source tools that can be used to assess the security of networks, systems, and applications.

Kali Linux 2026.1 opens the year with an annual theme refresh, a BackTrack mode for kali-undercover marking BackTrack's 20th anniversary, a birthday event, and eight new tools.

Kali celebrates 10 years since v1.0, tracing its lineage from Whoppix and WHAX through BackTrack to Kali Linux, with a screenshot tour, anniversary events, and a look at what's next.

Five days after launching at BlackHat EU, Kali counts 90,000+ downloads, ships a 1.0.1 bugfix for USB keyboard issues, and rolls out its documentation platform and translations.

A rundown of what changed from BackTrack to Kali: Debian-based FHS-compliant packaging, four-times-daily repo sync, preseed automation, custom ISO building, and serious ARM development.