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Retina : Commercial vulnerability assessment scanner by eEye Like Nessus, Retina’s function is to scan all the hosts on a network and report on any vulnerabilities found. It was written by eEye, who are well known for their security research.
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Sysinternals
Sysinternals : An extensive collection of powerful windows utilities Sysinternals provides many small windows utilities that are quite useful for low-level windows hacking. Some are free of cost and/or include source code, while others are proprietary. Survey respondents were most…
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Netfilter
Netfilter : The current Linux kernel packet filter/firewall Netfilter is a powerful packet filter implemented in the standard Linux kernel. The userspace iptables tool is used for configuration. It now supports packet filtering (stateless or stateful), all kinds of network…
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Superscan
Superscan : A Windows-only port scanner, pinger, and resolver SuperScan is a free Windows-only closed-source TCP/UDP port scanner by Foundstone. It includes a variety of additional networking tools such as ping, traceroute, http head, and whois.
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Aircrack
Aircrack : The fastest available WEP/WPA cracking tool Aircrack is a suite of tools for 802.11a/b/g WEP and WPA cracking. It can recover a 40 through 512-bit WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been gathered. It can also attack…
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GFI LANguard
GFI LANguard : A commercial network security scanner for Windows GFI LANguard scans IP networks to detect what machines are running. Then it tries to discern the host OS and what applications are running. I also tries to collect Windows…
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THC Amap
THC Amap : An application fingerprinting scanner Amap is a great tool for determining what application is listening on a given port. Their database isn’t as large as what Nmap uses for its version detection feature, but it is definitely…
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NetStumbler
NetStumbler : Free Windows 802.11 Sniffer Netstumbler is the best known Windows tool for finding open wireless access points (“wardriving”). They also distribute a WinCE version for PDAs and such named Ministumbler. The tool is currently free but Windows-only and…
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Dsniff
Dsniff : A suite of powerful network auditing and penetration-testing tools This popular and well-engineered suite by Dug Song includes many tools. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data (passwords, e-mail, files, etc.).…
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Paros proxy
Paros proxy : A web application vulnerability assessment proxy A Java based web proxy for assessing web application vulnerability. It supports editing/viewing HTTP/HTTPS messages on-the-fly to change items such as cookies and form fields. It includes a web traffic recorder,…