Free and Open-Source Software
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
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Burp Suite Community Edition - Web Application testing software
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IPTables - The userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and later packet filtering rule sets
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John the Ripper - An Open-Source password security auditing and password recovery tool available for many operating systems
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Metasploit Framework - The world’s most used penetration testing framework
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Nessus - The #1 vulnerability assessment solution
Nikto - A free command-line utility vulnerability scanner
NMap - A network discovery and security auditing port/host scanner
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OpenVPN - A Modern Private Network, Built for the Cloud
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pcap4j - A Java library for capturing, crafting, and sending packets
pfSense - An Open-Source firewall and router based on FreeBSD
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Snort (Community Ruleset) - A free and open-source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) and an intrusion prevention system (IPS)
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tcpdump - A powerful command-line packet analyzer
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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
