Security Tools
Firewalls, scanners, intrusion detection systems, scanners, rootkits, honeypots and other essential tools ;-)
Lists of Tools
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Firewall
Block attacks at the network levels
- OpenWall: also includes password cracker, word lists, kernel security enhancements and more
- ipcop
- Zorp: Proxy firewall suite
- l7-filter: Application layer packet classifier for Linux
- checkpoint
Scanners
Map firewalls, find vulnerable targets
OS Fingerprinting
Detect which Operating System a system is running
- l0t3k.org's list of tools
- X probe
- ippersonality: defeat os detection (for linux)
Exploitation
Exploit systems
- MetaSploit.com: for creating exploits semi-automatically
- fragroute: intercepts, modifies, and rewrites egress traffic destined for a specified host
Honeypots
Trap the crackers trying to exploit a system
- Honeynet: to learn the tools, tactics and motives of the blackhat community
- HoneyPots.net: honey pots and other IDS
- BaitNSwitch: redirects all hostile traffic to a honeypot that is partially mirroring your production system
Intrusion Detection
Detect intruders
- FAM
- fileschanged: very simple fam client
- dnotify
- changedfiles
- Snare
- AIDE
- Tripwire
- samhain: filesystem integrity check and rootkit detection
- AntiExploit : on-access exploit-scanner for Linux and FreeBSD
Rootkits
Backdoors, detection and cleanup
- adore-ng: rootkit
- Rootkit hunter
- chkrootkit
Forensics
Figure out what happened - on the spot, using a live cd
Distributions
Secure system out of the box
Data Security
How to protect your data, how to securely destroy it, encrypt it...
- PGP: pretty good privacy, data encryption
- Shred: file shredder
- Secured Harddisk Eraser
- Autoclave
Video Surveillance
Remote eyes
- ZoneMinder: video surveillance
- Motion: video capture and motion detection
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