monthly archive for May, 2009

THC Hydra

 
 
 

Tool name :
THC Hydra

 

Description :

THC Hydra is a fast network authentication cracker which supports many different services.
When you need to brute force crack a remote authentication service, Hydra is often the tool of choice. It can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more then 30 protocols, including telnet, ftp, http, https, smb, several databases, and much [...]

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Security related podcasts

As my old TV broke down I refused to buy a new one and because I moved into a new flat, beside my new environment, it was just another of many things I had to get used to. My life without a TV. The temptation of watching streams was big but I resisted but soon [...]

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Firewall bypassing via FWB++

Tool name :
FirewallBypassing++ 0.1

 

Description :
A tool to check if your desktop firewall can be bypassed by injecting code into a remote process. It opens an existing process (in this case a running instance of Internet Explorer), allocates memory in the address space of the remote process where the new malicious code will be copied to. [...]

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Cain & Abel

 
 
 

Tool name :
Cain & Abel

 

Description :

UNIX users often smugly assert that the best free security tools support their platform first, and Windows ports are often an afterthought. They are usually right, but Cain & Abel is a glaring exception. This Windows-only password recovery tool handles an enormous variety of tasks. It can recover passwords by [...]

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HandleProcesses

Tool name :
HandleProcesses version 0.2

 

Description :

HandleProcess is a tool to manage running processes on a Windows system. Depending on the passed parameters it lists all processes by name and process ID, it kills processes by name or by its process ID, it suspends a process with all its sub threads or it resumes a suspended [...]

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Tool name :

IEPasswordRecovery 0.1

 

Description :
IEPasswordRecovery searches inside Microsofts protected storage area for Internet Explorer auto completion (authentication input fields in a page) and HTTP authentication entries. If such an entry was found the hostname, username and password are printed on the display.
Only Internet Explorer up to version 6 use the protected storage to keep sensitive [...]

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Netstumbler

 
 
 

Tool name :
Netstumbler

 

Description :

NetStumbler is a tool for Windows that facilitates detection of Wireless LANs using the 802.11a/b/g WLAN standards. It runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 to Windows XP

 

Homepage :
www.stumbler.net

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Wireshark

 
 
 

Tool name :
Netstumbler

 

Description :

Wireshark (known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006) is a fantastic open source network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, delving down into just the [...]

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Nessus

 
 
 

Tool name :
Nessus

 

Description :

Nessus was a popular free and open source vulnerability scanner until they closed the source code in 2005 and removed the free “registered feed” version in 2008. A limited “Home Feed” is still available, though it is only licensed for home network use. Some people avoid paying by violating the “Home Feed” [...]

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Nmap

 
 
 

Tool name :
Nmap

 

Description :

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are [...]

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