Tool name : Aircrack     Description : Aircrack-ng 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, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the [...]

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      Tool name : Nikto     Description : Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on over 250 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently [...]

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      Tool name : SuperScan     Description : SuperScan is a free Windows-only closed-source TCP/UDP port scanner developed by Foundstone. It includes a variety of additional networking tools such as ping, traceroute, HTTP HEAD/GET, and whois.   Homepage : www.foundstone.com

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      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, [...]

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      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 [...]

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      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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      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 [...]

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      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 [...]

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      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 [...]

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      Tool name : John the ripper   Description : John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types [...]

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