Monday, 23 April 2012

Tools (23rd April)

My 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.

Nessus 5.0.1 Released
http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2012/04/nessus-501-released.html
Tenable is pleased to announce the release of Nessus 5.0.1! This is a point release (moving from 5.0 to 5.0.1), containing enhancements and minor bug fixes. This release improves the stability on all platforms, and solves Windows-specific issues related to installation and packet forgery.

CIntruder v0.1 Beta Released
http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/04/cintruder-v0-1-beta-released/
CIntruder (Captcha Intruder) is an automatic pentesting tool to bypass captchas. If this tool works it would be useful additional to some web vulnerability testing.

DEFT v7.1 Computer Forensics Live CD Released
http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/04/deft-v7-1-computer-forensics-live-cd-released/
DEFT it’s a new concept of Computer Forensic live system that use LXDE as desktop environment and WINE for execute Windows tools under Linux and mount manager as tool for device management.

IronWASP v0.9.0.3 released -A web application vulnerability Testing Tool
http://th3mast3r.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/ironwasp-v0-9-0-3-released-a-web-application-vulnerability-testing-tool/
IronWASP (Iron Web application Advanced Security testing Platform) is an open source system for web application vulnerability testing, developed by Lavakumar Kuppan.
It is designed to be customizable to the extent where users can create their own custom security scanners using it. Though an advanced user with Python/Ruby scripting expertise would be able to make full use of the platform, a lot of the tool’s features are simple enough to be used by absolute beginners.

No comments:

Post a Comment