Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers.
Search for:. Martin Brinkmann. Related content Microsoft says Powerdir vulnerability in macOS could have given attackers access to user data. Avira is adding a crypto miner to its products as well. KeePass 2. LastPass: some users report compromised accounts. Bitdefender Free will be retired on December 31, Complete Free Website Security Check. Computer Security. Kali Linux December 10, Load more. Through protocol analysis, content searching, and various pre-processors, Snort detects thousands of worms, vulnerability exploit attempts, port scans, and other suspicious behavior.
Snort uses a flexible rule-based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Sourcefire also offers a free day delayed feed. Read 2 reviews. UNIX users often smugly assert that the best free security tools support their platform first, and Windows ports are often an afterthought.
This Windows-only password recovery tool handles an enormous variety of tasks. It can recover passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary, brute-force and cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. It is also well documented.
Read 17 reviews. It boasts a huge variety of Security and Forensics tools and provides a rich development environment. User modularity is emphasized so the distribution can be easily customized by the user to include personal scripts, additional tools, customized kernels, etc. BackTrack is succeeded by Kali Linux. Read 22 reviews. It is designed to be a reliable back-end tool to use directly or easily drive by other programs and scripts.
At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need, including port binding to accept incoming connections.
The original Netcat was released by Hobbit in , but it hasn't been maintained despite its popularity. It can sometimes even be hard to find a copy of the v1. Read 13 reviews. Tcpdump is the network sniffer we all used before Wireshark came on the scene, and many of us continue to use it frequently. It may not have the bells and whistles such as a pretty GUI and parsing logic for hundreds of application protocols that Wireshark has, but it does the job well and with less security risk. It also requires fewer system resources.
While Tcpdump doesn't receive new features often, it is actively maintained to fix bugs and portability problems. It is great for tracking down network problems or monitoring activity.
There is a separate Windows port named WinDump. Read 3 reviews. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords, though it supports hashes for many other platforms as well. There is an official free version, a community-enhanced version with many contributed patches but not as much quality assurance , and an inexpensive pro version. You will probably want to start with some wordlists, which you can find here , here , or here. Read 7 reviews. Kismet is a console ncurses based It identifies networks by passively sniffing as opposed to more active tools such as NetStumbler , and can even decloak hidden non-beaconing networks if they are in use.
As you might expect, this tool is commonly used for wardriving. Oh, and also warwalking , warflying , and warskating , etc. Latest release: version KismetR1b on April 8, 8 years, 9 months ago. SSH Secure Shell is the now ubiquitous program for logging into or executing commands on a remote machine. There are dozens of other free and proprietary clients to consider as well. Burp Suite is an integrated platform for attacking web applications. It contains a variety of tools with numerous interfaces between them designed to facilitate and speed up the process of attacking an application.
All of the tools share the same framework for handling and displaying HTTP messages, persistence, authentication, proxies, logging, alerting and extensibility. It also checks for server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server options, and will attempt to identify installed web servers and software. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated.
It was inspired by the ping command, but offers far more control over the probes sent. It also has a handy traceroute mode and supports IP fragmentation.
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