Hacker/Security Tools

Here are some great tools for the security professional who wants to learn how hackers do it:

Achilles. Used to edit http sessions .

Adore. Kernel level rootkit .

Back Orifice 2000. Back-door program for Windows.

Cheops. Network mapping tool .

Covert TCP. Hides data in the TCP protocol.

CPU Hog. DOS attack .

Crack. Password cracker for UNIX .

Dsniff. Advanced sniffer program .

Dumpsec. Extracts information from NT null sessions:

Enum. Extracts information from NT null sessions .

Firewalk. Determines a firewall ruleset:

Fragrouter. Used to fragment packets .

Getadmin. Privilege escalation for NT.

Hunt. Session hijacking tool .

IIS Unicode Exploit. Exploits an IIS server .

Imap Buffer Overflow. Buffer overflow for UNIX .

IP Watcher. Commercial session hijacking tool .

ITS4. Security reviewer .

Jizz. DNS cache poisoning tool .

John the Ripper. Password cracker .

Jolt2. Denial of Service tool .

Juggernaut. Session hijacking tool: http://www.rootshell.com

Knark. Kernel level rootkit .

Land. Denial of Service attack .

Loki. Covert channel for creating a back door .

L0phtcrack. Password cracker .

Lrk5. Rootkit .

Nessus. Free vulnerability scanner.

NetBus. Back-door program for Windows .

Netcat. Swiss army knife of security tools .

NetMeeting Buffer Overflow. Buffer overflow .

Nmap. Port scanner.

NT Rootkit. Rootkit for NT .

Ping of Death. Denial of Service attack .

Queso. Operating system fingerprinting tool .

RDS Exploit. IIS exploit .

RedButton. NT exploit .

Redir. Packet redirector.

Reverse WWW shell. Back-door program .

Rstatd exploit. Buffer overflow .

Rootkits. Rootkits for UNIX .

Sam Spade. General tool for Windows .

Sechole. Privilege escalation exploit .

Smurf. Denial of Service exploit .

Sniffit. Sniffer .

Snort. Sniffer IDS .

Solaris LKM Rootkit. Back-door program .

SSPing. Denial of Service exploit .

SYN Flood. Denial of Service exploit .

Targa. Tool for running multiple Denial of Service exploits .

TBA. War dialer for Palm Pilots .

THC Scan. War dialer .

Tini. Backdoor for NT .

ToolTalk Buffer Overflow. Buffer overflow .

TFN2K. Distributed Denial of Service attack tool .

Trinoo. Distributed denial of service attack tool .

TTY Watcher. Session hijacking tool:

Whisker. CGI vulnerability scanner.

WinDump. Sniffer for Windows .

WinNuke. Denial of Service exploit .

WinZapper. Log cleaner for NT .