Investigating PwnBerry Pi

PwnBerry Pi (https://github.com/g13net/PwnBerryPi) is advertised as another penetration testing suite for Raspberry Pi and is based on Raspberry Pwn as discussed earlier. Much like Raspberry Pwn, Pwnberry Pi has not been recently updated, which seems to indicate that for penetration testing the field is consolidating around Kali Linux.

It should also be noted that best practice is not to use many of the tools required for web-based penetration testing from a lower-end system such as a Raspberry Pi. For example, PwnBerry Pi includes the installation file for Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF), rather than installing it knowing most penetration testers wouldn't run this application from an ARM image. If you install BeEF ...

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