Monday, 19 March 2012

Tool Update 18 March 2012

Weekly blog on the tools that have come to my attention over the last week, it is not a comprehesive tool list but tools that I found interesting or details of tools I use that have been upgraded.

One of the most interesting releases that has hit the infosec world is not so much a pen test tool but the Anonymous OS, not going to go into to details but check the threads on twitter and the blogs for more details on the so called Anonymous OS that has been denied by Anonymous  and removed from source forge.

Update Seccubus V2.0 beta3 http://seccubus.com/
Tool to automatically fire regular security scans with Nessus. Compare results of the current scan with the previous scan and report on the delta in a web interface. Main objective of the tool is to make repeated scans more efficient.

Web Application Security Penetration Testinghttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/adammuntner/webappsec/
The plugins list for firefox have been updates as the list maintainer says can not guarantee the trustworthiness of plugins but plugs provide useful functionaility to browser, there is a good range for IE, Firefox and Chrome that are useful for the web application tester


CANAPE security assessment http://www.contextis.com/news/
Context Information Security has been presenting its latest Windows security assessment tool at Black Hat Europe this week in Amsterdam. CANAPE extends the functionality of existing web application testing tools such as CAT, Burp or Fiddler in order to analyse complex network protocols.

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