Top 100 Open Source Security Tools
Written by Jeromie Jackson
Monday, 13 April 2009 02:04 -
Top 100 Security Assessment, Vulnerability Auditing, & Security Tools
1 Stockade Virtual Appliance with Snort, BA
Nessus
Open source vulnerability assessment tool
3 Snort Intrusion Detection (IDS) tool
4 Wireshark TCP/IP Sniffer- AKA Ethereal
WebScarab
Analyze applications that communicate using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols
6 Wikto Web server assessment tool
7 BackTrack Penetration Testing live Linux distri
8 Netcat The network Swiss army knife
9 Metasploit Framework Comprehensive hacking
10 Sysinternals Collection of windows utilities
11 Paros proxy Web application proxy
12 Enum Enumerate Windows information
13 P0F v2 Passive OS identification tool
14 IPPersonality Masquerade IP Stack
15 SLAN Freeware VPN utility
16 IKE Crack IKE/IPSEC cracking utility
17 ASLEAP LEAP cracking tool
18 Karma Wireless client assessment tool- danger
19 WEPCrack WEP cracking tool
20 Wellenreiter Wireless scanning application
21
SiteDigger
1/5
Top 100 Open Source Security Tools
Written by Jeromie Jackson
Monday, 13 April 2009 02:04 -
Great Google hacking tool
22 Several DDOS Tools Distributed Deni
23 Achilles Web Proxy Tool
24 Firefox Web Developer Tool Manual w
25 Scoopy Virtual Machine Identification tool
26 WebGoat Learning tool for web application pen
27 FlawFinder Source code security analyzer
28 ITS4 Source code security analyzer
29 Slint
Source code security analyzer
30 PwDump3 Dumps Windows 2000 & NT passw
31 Loki ICMP covert channel tool
32 Zodiac DNS testing tool
33 Hunt TCP hijacking tool
34 SniffIT Curses-Based sniffing tool
35 CactiEZ Network traffic analysis ISO
36 Inprotect Web-based Nessus administration too
37 OSSIM Security Information Management (SIM
38 Nemesis Command-Line network packet manip
39 NetDude TCPDump manipulation tool
40 TTY Watcher Terminal session hijack
41 Stegdetect Detects stego-hidden data
42 Hydan Embeds data within x86 applications
43 S-Tools Embeds data within a BMP, GIF, & WA
44 Nushu Passive covert channel tool
45 Ptunnel Transmit data across ICMP
46 Covert_TCP Transmit data over IP Header field
2/5
Top 100 Open Source Security Tools
Written by Jeromie Jackson
Monday, 13 April 2009 02:04 -
47 THC-PBX Hacker PBX Hacking/Audit
48 THC-Scan Wardialer
49 Syslog-NG MySQL Syslog Service
50
WinZapper
Edit WinNT 4 & Win2000 log files
51 Rootkit Detective Rootkit identification
52 Rootkit Releaver Rootkit identification
53 RootKit Hunter Rootkit identification to
54
Chkrootkit
Rootkit identification tool
55 LKM Linux Kernal Rootkit
56 TCPView Network traffic monitoring tool
57 NMAP Network mapping tool
58 Ollydbg Windows unpacker
59 UPX Windows packing application
60 Burneye Linux ELF encryption tool
61
SilkRpoe 2000
GUI-Based packer/wrapper
62 EliteWrap Backdoor wrapper tool
63 SubSeven
Remote-Control backdoor tool
64 MegaSecurity Site stores thousands of trojan h
65 Netbus
3/5
Top 100 Open Source Security Tools
Written by Jeromie Jackson
Monday, 13 April 2009 02:04 -
Backdoor for Windows
66 Back Orfice 2000 Windows network administra
67 Tini Backdoor listener similar to Netcat
68
MBSA
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
69 OpenVPN SSL VPN solution
70 Sguil An Analyst Console for network security/l
71 Honeyd Create your own honeypot
72 Brutus Brute-force authentication cracker
73 cheops / cheops-ng
Maps lo
74 ClamAV A GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX
75 Fragroute / Fragrouter
Int
76 Arpwatch Monitor ethernet/IP address pairings
77 Angry IP Scanner Windows port scanner
78 Firewalk Advanced traceroute
79 RainbowCrack Password Hash Cracker
80 EtherApe EtherApe is a graphical network mon
81 WebInspect Web application scanner
82 Tripwire File integrity checker
83 Ntop Network traffic usage monitor
84 Sam Spade Windows network query tool
85 Scapy Interactive packet manipulation tool
86 Superscan A Windows-only port scanner
87 Airsnort 802.11 WEP Encryption Cracking Tool
4/5
Top 100 Open Source Security Tools
Written by Jeromie Jackson
Monday, 13 April 2009 02:04 -
88 Aircrack WEP/WPA cracking tool
89 NetStumbler Windows 802.11 Sniffer
90 Dsniff A suite of powerful network auditing and
91 John the Ripper Multi-platform password hash
92 BASE The Basic Analysis and Security Engine-
93 Kismet Wireless sniffing tool
94
THC Hydra
Network authentication cracker
95 Nikto Web scanner
96 Tcpdump TCP/IP analysis tool
97
L0phtcrack
Windows password auditing and recovery application
98
Reverse WWW Shell
Shell access across port 80
99 THC-SecureDelete Ensure deleted files are unr
100 THC-AMAP Application mapping tool
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