Computer Security & Hacking Attacks

Nessus

In computer security, Nessus is a proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanning program. It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems.[read more]

Milworm

milw0rm (also called milwOrm) is a group of "hacktivists" best known for penetrating the computers of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) inMumbai, the primary nuclear research facility of India, on June 3, 1998. The group conducted hacks for political reasons,^[2] including the largest mass hack up to that time, inserting an anti-nuclear weapons agenda and peace message on its hacked websites.

CIRT Nekto

Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1000 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers.[read more?]

Nmap

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. 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 running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts.[read more?]

Acunetix

Acunetix is a security company that develops a web vulnerability scanner which allows companies to find potential security issues in their web applications. The company was founded in 2004 and its product has been on the market since early 2005.[read more?]

Wireshark

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocoldevelopment, and education. Originally named Ethereal, in May 2006 the project was renamed Wireshark due to trademark issues.[read more?]

SolarWinds

Powerful & affordable network management, network monitoring, storage management, server management & application management software.[read more?]

Packetfactory

The Packetfactory is a clearing house for cool-ass network and network security related endeavors.

• Network security tools
• Network and network security programming libraries
• Network security whitepapers and reports
• Something exceptionally cool-ass [read more?]