Security-Database Blog

hostmap is a free, automatic, hostnames and virtual hosts discovery tool written in Ruby, licensed under GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). It’s goal is to enumerate all hostnames and configured virtual hosts on an IP address. The primary users of hostmap are professionals performing vulnerability assessments and penetration tests.

CAT is an application to facilitate manual web application penetration testing. It was designed to cope with a more demanding level of application testing, taking away some of the more repetitive nature of testing and allowing the tester to focus their time instead on the individual application, enabling them to conduct a much more thorough test.

KisMAC is an open-source and free sniffer/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler / iStumbler / NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning.

Airoscript is a text-user-interface (TUI) for aircrack-ng. A great companion to make your life easier on wifi pentesting. Various attacks are available, such as chopchop, fragmentation attack, fakeauth, deauth, dictionary attacks and WPA cracking.

Spiceworks is the complete network management & monitoring, helpdesk, PC inventory & software reporting solution to manage Everything IT in small and medium businesses.

Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It has a rich and powerful feature set and runs on most computing platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, and UNIX. Network professionals, security experts, developers, and educators around the world use it regularly. It is freely available as open source, and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2

The samhain open source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) provides file integrity checking and logfile monitoring/analysis, as well as rootkit detection, port monitoring, detection of rogue SUID executables, and hidden processes.

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

Mobius Forensic Toolkit is an open-source forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files, for easy integration with other tools.

Dradis is an open source framework to enable effective information sharing. Dradis is a self-contained web application that provides a centralised repository of information to keep track of what has been done so far, and what is still ahead.

Ninja is a privilege escalation detection and prevention system for GNU/Linux hosts. While running, it will monitor process activity on the local host, and keep track of all processes running as root. If a process is spawned with UID or GID zero (root), ninja will log necessary information about this process, and optionally kill the process if it was spawned by an unauthorized user.