Free and Open-Source Software
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Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) is software that is Free Software and Open-Source Software. There is so much FOSS in the security domain that I believe this warrants its own wiki page.
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- AirCrack-NG - A complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security
- Angry IP Scanner - A port and host scanner for Windows.
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- Burp Suite Community Edition - Web Application testing software
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- Cain and Abel - A freely available Windows password sniffer and cracker
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- EtherApe - A graphical network monitor and sniffer
- Ettercap - A suite of tools for Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks
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- Hashcat - A multi-operating system, high-speed password recovery tool
- Hash Suite - A Windows-based high-performance password cracker
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- IPTables - The userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and later packet filtering rulesets
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- John the Ripper - A multi-platform password cracker
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- Kismet - A suite of tools for wireless sniffing, network and device detection, and wardriving
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- L0phtCrack - An open-source password hash cracker
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- Medusa - The massively speedy, highly parallel, modular login brute-forcing password cracker
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- NCrack - A high-speed, multi-platform network authentication cracking tool
- NetStumbler - A Windows-based wireless network detection tool used for wardriving and WiFi mapping
- Nikto - A free command-line utility vulnerability scanner
- NMap - A network discovery and security auditing port/host scanner
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- ophCrack - An open-source Windows-password cracking program
- OSSEC - A free Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) tool
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- Snort (Community Ruleset) - A free and open-source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS)
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- tcpdump - A powerful command-line packet analyzer
- THC-Hydra - A GPLed proof-of-concept password cracking tool
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- Wfuzz - A web application security assessment tool
- Wireshark - The world’s foremost, widely-used network protocol analyzer
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- Zed Attack Proxy - The world's most widely used web application scanner
