Monday 2 April 2012

Tools (April 2nd)

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.

Wireshark 1.6.6
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
The current stable release of Wireshark is 1.6.6. It supersedes all previous releases, including all releases of Ethereal. You can also download the latest development release (1.7.0) and documentation

Deft 7.1 Available
http://www.deftlinux.net/download/
Deft 7.1 ISO is online since March, 30
DEFT 7 is based on the new Kernel 3 (Linux side) and the DART (Digital Advanced Response Toolkit) with the best freeware Windows Computer Forensic tools. It’s a new concept of Computer Forensic system that use LXDE as desktop environment and WINE for execute Windows tools under Linux and mount manager as tool for device management. It is a very professiona and stable system that includes an excellent hardware detection and the best free and open source applications dedicated to Incident Response, Cyber Intelligence and Computer Forensics.

A new tool that I will be looking at
http://ironwasp.org/download.html
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.


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