Parrot Security OS (or ParrotSec) is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. It was developed for Penetration Testing (computer security), Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation, Computer Forensics and Anonymous Surfing. It was created by the Italian Frozenbox Team.
ParrotSec or Parrot Security OS offers many tools for analyzing web content and computer systems. It is a laboratory for digital forensics, with legally recognized tools that work together with cryptography, offering many possibilities. In addition, it allows you to surf and work anonymously.
Parrot is based on the stable Debian Jessie distribution, with a security-optimized Linux 4.1 Kernel. The distribution is a rolling release.
The desktop environment is MATE, a fork of Gnome 2, and the default display manager is LightDM.
The program is certified to run on systems that have at least 265Mb of RAM and is suitable for both 32bit (i386) and 64bit (amd64). It also has a special version that works on old 32bit machines (486). In addition, the program is available for armel and armhf architectures. It also has a version (32bit and 64bit) developed for servers to perform Cloud pentesting.
The development team has not specified the exact frequency of official releases, but according to the changelog of versions that have already been released, the distribution release frequency is monthly.
Previous versions (WikiPedia)
| Hέρομχνία | Issue | Code name |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-10 | The project was born | |
| 2013-06-17 | Parrot 0.1 | Pre-alpha |
| 2013-06-22 | Parrot 0.2 | Pre-alpha |
| 2013-06-30 | Parrot 0.3 | Pre-alpha |
| 2013-07-10 | Parrot 0.4 | Pre-alpha |
| 2013-08-22 | Parrot 0.5 | Alpha |
| 2013-10-21 | Parrot 0.6 | Alpha |
| 2013-11-12 | Parrot 0.6.5 | Alpha |
| 2013-12-06 | Parrot 0.7 | Pre-beta |
| 2014-01-12 | Parrot 0.8 | Beta |
| 2014-01-24 | Parrot 0.8.1 | Beta |
| 2014-03-05 | Parrot 0.8.2 | Beta |
| 2014-04-17 | Parrot 0.8.4 | Beta |
| 2014-06-25 | Parrot 0.9 | Final beta |
| 2014-07-21 | Parrot 1.0 | Hydrogen |
| 2014-09-02 | Parrot 1.1 | Asphalt Dragon |
| 2014-09-11 | Parrot 1.2 | Asphalt Dragon |
| 2014-10-22 | Parrot 1.4 | JailBird |
| 2014-11-06 | Parrot 1.4.2 | JailBird |
| 2014-12-12 | Parrot 1.6 | JailBird |
| 2015-02-05 | Parrot 1.7 | CyberLizard |
| 2015-02-21 | Parrot 1.8 | CyberLizard |
| 2015-04-04 | Parrot 1.9 | CyberLizard |
| 2015-09-12 | Parrot 2.0 | Helium |
| 2015-09-15 | Parrot 2.0.1 | Helium |
| 2015-10-06 | Parrot 2.0.4 | Helium |
| 2015-10-17 | Parrot 2.0.5 | Helium |
| 2016-01-16 | Parrot 2.1 | Murdock |
| 2016-02-25 | Parrot 2.2 | Glitch |
Thus today the new Parrot Security OS 3.1 will be released. You can download it from the link below before the official announcement:
Download Parrot Security OS 3.1
| Parrot-full-3.1_amd64.iso | 3.9GB | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parrot-full-3.1_i386.iso | 4.0 GB | |||
| Parrot-lite-3.1_i386.iso | 1.8 GB | |||
| Parrot-lite-3.1_amd64.iso | 1.7GB | |||
| Parrot-cloud-3.1_i386.iso | 1.6GB | |||
| Parrot-cloud-3.1_amd64.iso | 1.6GB |
