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Intrusion Detection

AIDE – Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment is a file and directory integrity checker.

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Intrusion Detection

Samhain – host-based intrusion detection system

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

The Samhain host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) provides file integrity checking and log file monitoring/analysis.

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Intrusion Detection

Rootkit Hunter – security tool

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits.

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Intrusion Detection

chkrootkit – locally checks for signs of a rootkit

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit.

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Wifi

LinSSID – graphical wireless scanning

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

LinSSID is a Wi-Fi network scanner. It’s graphically and functionally similar to Inssider.

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Wifi

wavemon – ncurses-based monitoring for wireless network devices

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application. Watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and more.

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Wifi

horst – Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 WLAN analyzer with a text interface.

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Wifi

Kismet – networking software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It works with wireless cards which supports raw monitoring.

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Wifi

aircrack-ng – WiFi security auditing tools suite

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.

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Wifi

airgeddon – multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

airgeddon is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks. The script offers a wide range of features.

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Wifi

bettercap – Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks.

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Wifi

Universal Radio Hacker – complete suite for wireless protocol investigation

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

URH is a complete suite for wireless protocol investigation with native support for many common Software Defined Radios.

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Security

IPCop – firewall distribution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution. It is geared towards home and SOHO users.

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Security

ClearOS – distribution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

ClearOS (previously ClarkConnect) is a Linux distribution. ClearOS transforms any standard PC into a dedicated firewall and Internet server/gateway.

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Security

Smoothwall Express – open source firewall solution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Smoothwall Express is an open source firewall that includes its own security-hardened Linux operating system.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

PRADS – Passive Real-time Asset Detection System

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

PRADS stands for Passive Real-time Asset Detection System. It passively listens to network traffic.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

Ettercap – comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other tricks.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

p0f – array of passive traffic fingerprinting mechanisms

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

p0f is a tool that uses an array of sophisticated, purely passive traffic fingerprinting mechanisms.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

PacketFence – network access control solution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

PacketFence is a network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set this is free and open source software.

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Security

lua-resty-waf – High Performance WAF Built on the OpenResty Stack

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

lua-resty-waf is a high performance web application firewall (WAF) written for the OpenResty stack, leveraging the scalable architecture of Nginx, while providing a ModSecurity-compatible rule syntax.

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