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Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating alerting mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba’s smbclient.

SAINT, or the Security Administrator’s Integrated Network Tool, uncovers areas of weakness and recommends fixes. With SAINT® vulnerability assessment tool, you can:

• Detect and fix possible weaknesses in your network’s security before they can be exploited by intruders.
• Anticipate and prevent common system vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrate compliance with current government regulations such as FISMA, Sarbanes Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA, and COPPA

Aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools

Wikto provides the same functionality as the Nikto tool. But it goes a little further. There are 3 main sections of the tool. These are : Back-End miner, Nikto-like functionality and google

Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating alerting mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba’s smbclient.

WebInspect 7 is the first and only web application security assessment tool to be re-architected to thoroughly analyze today’s complex web applications built on emerging Web 2.0 technologies. The new architecture delivers faster scanning capabilities, broader assessment coverage, and the most accurate results of any web application scanner available

CORE FORCE is the first community oriented security solution for personal computers. CORE FORCE is free and provides a comprehensive endpoint security solution for Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems

Pixy is an Open-Source Vulnerability Scanner that identifies SQL, XSS problems in PHP applications.

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web site and web application penetration testing.

SAINT, or the Security Administrator’s Integrated Network Tool, uncovers areas of weakness and recommends fixes. With SAINT® vulnerability assessment tool, you can:

• Detect and fix possible weaknesses in your network’s security before they can be exploited by intruders.
• Anticipate and prevent common system vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrate compliance with current government regulations such as FISMA, Sarbanes Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA, and COPPA

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols