http://www.net-security.org/software_main.php?cat=2 Help Net Security - your homepage for all the information security news en-us Copyright since 1998 by HNS staff Fri, 25 May 2012 05:30:02 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=1 Nmap is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing servic... Mon, 21 May 2012 15:49:48 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=40 Shorewall is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and w... Sun, 20 May 2012 03:44:39 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=112 Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/match... Sun, 20 May 2012 03:43:15 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=279 Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services y... Mon, 7 May 2012 12:43:57 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=643 strongSwan is a complete IPsec and IKEv1 implementation for Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It interoperates with most other IPsec-based VPN products. It is a descendant of the discontinued FreeS/WAN proje... Sun, 6 May 2012 12:29:46 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=125 Samhain is an open source file integrity and host-based intrusion detection system. It can run as a daemon process, and and thus can remember file changes - contrary to a tool that runs from cron, if ... Sun, 6 May 2012 12:28:56 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=531 This scanning tool ensures you're clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits by running tests like:MD5 hash compareLook for default files used by rootkitsWrong fi... Sun, 6 May 2012 12:27:10 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=83 Ettercap is a multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and ho... Sun, 1 Apr 2012 16:17:12 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=518 ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications. It operates embedded into the web server, acting as a powerful umbrella - shielding applications from atta... Sun, 1 Apr 2012 16:13:11 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=4 The netfilter/iptables project is the Linux 2.4.x / 2.5.x firewalling subsystem. It delivers you the functionality of packet filtering (stateless or stateful), all different kinds of NAT (Network Addr... Sun, 1 Apr 2012 16:08:41 -0400