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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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Passive OS Fingerprinting

PacketFence – network access control solution

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

PacketFence provides network access control with 802.1X authentication, captive portals, device registration and access enforcement.

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Log Analyzers

Nagios – host and service monitor

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems. The monitoring daemon runs periodic checks on hosts and services.

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Remote Display

OpenSSH – remote login with the SSH protocol

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OpenSSH provides secure remote login, command execution, SFTP transfers, key management and tunnelling for Linux systems and servers.

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Documentation

hping3 – TCP/IP packet assembler and network analyser

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hping3 creates customised TCP, UDP and ICMP packets for network troubleshooting, firewall testing, port scanning and traceroute analysis.

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Encryption

zuluCrypt – feature-rich hard drive encryption tools

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Security

zuluCrypt provides CLI and Qt tools for managing LUKS, dm-crypt, VeraCrypt, TrueCrypt and BitLocker volumes across Linux storage devices.

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Encryption

Tomb – system for file encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Tomb manages portable LUKS-encrypted storage containers with separate keys, FIDO2 unlocking, steganography and flexible mounting.

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Encryption

gocryptfs – encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

gocryptfs provides file-based encrypted storage through FUSE, with reverse mode, filename encryption, FIDO2 support and cloud-friendly sync.

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Password Managers

Rooster – simple password manager for geeks

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rooster stores usernames and passwords in one encrypted local file, with password generation, fuzzy search and CSV/JSON import and export.

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Password Managers

pass – standard Unix password manager

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pass stores individual passwords in GPG-encrypted files, with Git synchronisation, password generation, clipboard support and extensions.

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Password Managers

KeePassXC – secure password manager

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KeePassXC is a secure desktop password manager with passkeys, TOTP, browser integration, SSH agent support and encrypted KDBX databases.

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Encryption software

GnuPG – implementation of the OpenPGP standard

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Security

GnuPG implements OpenPGP for encryption, signing and key management, with smartcard support, modern authenticated encryption and automation

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Email

Mailvelope – OpenPGP encryption for webmail

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Security

Mailvelope adds OpenPGP encryption to webmail, with browser-based key management, optional GnuPG integration, composing and key backup.

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Encryption software

Enigmail – former OpenPGP extension for Thunderbird

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Security

Enigmail was a Thunderbird OpenPGP extension providing encryption, digital signatures and GnuPG integration before native OpenPGP support.

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Hypervisors

Xen – bare-metal virtualization hypervisor

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor supporting isolated virtual machines, PVH guests, device passthrough, live migration and security controls.

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Archive Manager

PeaZip – file archiver and compression utility

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PeaZip is a graphical archive manager with encryption, archive conversion, file search, checksum verification and support for many formats.

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