Nessus is a free, up-to-date, and full featured remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris and some other systems. It is multithreaded, plugin-based, has a nice GTK interface, and currently performs over 330 remote security checks. It has powerful reporting capabilities (HTML, LaTeX, ASCII text) and not only points out problems, but suggests a solution for each of them.
d3d9e3c74e4221b60441b42bd858b53769da4a14446c74c64ecb7e3a8ed8abc7Overwrite is a UNIX utility for secure deletion, based on Peter Gutmann's paper "secure deletion of data from magnetic and solid state memory" and was created in order to make harder the data recovery process. It implements a built-in cryptographic prng and try to flush the SO and HD cache when possible.
645eb887739f8ca1576eabc9a29b0604513f6cd18eb5d6f84e29efc5d7e2849cThere is a buffer overflow in the Win32 RealPlayer Basic client versions 6 and 7 which occurs when a long location to play string is entered. Using the HTML "EMBED" tag to embed RealPlayer in a webpage and setting the "AUTOSTART=true" flag, you can force RealPlayer to start automatically, triggering the overflow condition. It appears that arbitrary code could be exploited simply by *VISITING* a webpage with the malicious embedded RealPlayer tags. MacOS and linux versions appear not to be vulnerable.
37419905d1e37c015f0676d7c50395144408e6d018c7cd4c3400a0871bbd49fdNapalm Magazine issue #4 - In this issue: Editor's Comments, URL's, Securing Solaris 2.x, Music Review, and everything you ever wanted to know about Just Intonation.
cafa960c5133d57cf2949d3e0b0002727f79650f23b625434d814466d34e1528Nmap is an advanced utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning, many port scanning techniques, TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote OS detection), advanced host enumeration, firewall bypassing, flexible target and port specification, decoy scanning, determination of TCP sequence predictability characteristics, sunRPC scanning, reverse-identd scanning, and more.
6837b204c5af1e4441e818f15a205ea1c748617529e62b85e932fe3c069e09e2The PHP firewall generator is a simple PHP script that generates a firewall script for ipchains-based firewalls. The aim is to support an easily configurable rule set similar to those supported by commercial firewall systems.
1aae0966158631fd10c92f18a526fa8ffda4b4db167899ea9d24dcff10ba022dBastille Linux aims to be the most comprehensive, flexible, and educational Security Hardening Program for Red Hat Linux 6.0/6.1/6.2. Virtually every task it performs is optional, providing immense flexibility. It educates the installing admin regarding the topic at hand before asking any question. The interactive nature allows the program to be more thorough when securing, while the educational component produces an admin who is less likely to compromise the increased security.
e624219f95c468cb2ebbb870f8521a099c735b63bca8b56de035c41d2cebe6c4The Sentinel project is designed to be a portable, accurate implementation of all publicly known promiscuous detection techniques. Sentinel currently supports 3 methods of remote promiscuous detection: The DNS test, Etherping test, and ARP test. Support for the ICMP Ping Latency test is under development.
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