403 forbidden while updating kali linux

403 forbidden while updating Kali Linux

Kali Linux is the most popular Penetration testing Linux distribution based on Debian system. It is used by most of the hackers or pen-testers to gather the various information about any networking assets or the websites vulnerabilities exist in their system. kali-rolling is our current active repository since the release of Kali 2016.1. Kali Rolling users are expected to have the following entries in their sources.list:

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
 # For source package access, uncomment the following line
# deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

but due to some issue in this repo Kali Linux there is an issue 403 forbidden error while updating it as in following figure:

to solve this issue just  comment out the repo and add another mirror repo below as shown in figure below:
deb http://kali.cs.nctu.edu.tw/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

after doing as shown in above figure  now you can run the following command in your terminal

apt-get clean && apt-get update

 
this will solve the issue if not add another working repo mirror in source list