Open Source Tripwire is a free software security and data integrity tool useful for monitoring and alerting on specific file change(s).
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Logwatch – powerful and versatile log parser and analyzer
Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your system’s logs and creates a report analyzing specific areas.
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AIDE – Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment is a file and directory integrity checker.
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Rootkit Hunter – security tool
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits.
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chkrootkit – locally checks for signs of a rootkit
chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit.
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LibreOffice – Draw
LibreOffice is an open source software office suite developed by The Document Foundation that is compatible with other major office suites.
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Ghostscript – PostScript and PDF interpreter
Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers.
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Apache PDFBox – Java tool for working with PDF documents
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.
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PoDoFo – easy to use PDF parsing and creation library
The PoDoFo library can parse and modify existing PDF files and create new ones from scratch.
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pdf-compress – compress an overly large PDF file to smaller monochrome
pdf-compress is a Bash script that lets you compress an overly large PDF file to smaller monochrome.
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pdfgrep – command-line utility to search text in PDF files
pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. pdfgrep tries to be mostly compatible with grep with some PDF-specific distinctions/options.
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LinSSID – graphical wireless scanning
LinSSID is a Wi-Fi network scanner. It’s graphically and functionally similar to Inssider.
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wavemon – ncurses-based monitoring for wireless network devices
wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application. Watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and more.
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horst – Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool
horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 WLAN analyzer with a text interface.
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Kismet – networking software
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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bettercap – Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks
bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks.
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Universal Radio Hacker – complete suite for wireless protocol investigation
URH is a complete suite for wireless protocol investigation with native support for many common Software Defined Radios.
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OPNsense – FreeBSD-based firewall and routing software
OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build HardenedBSD based firewall and routing platform.
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IPCop – firewall distribution
The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution. It is geared towards home and SOHO users.
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ClearOS – distribution
ClearOS (previously ClarkConnect) is a Linux distribution. ClearOS transforms any standard PC into a dedicated firewall and Internet server/gateway.
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