// //]]> Inguma is a free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python. Framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force usernames and passwords, exploits, and a disassembler. Inguma scanning modules are divided into 5 parts, plus one autoscan module. The Modules are “Discover”, “Gather”, “Brute [...]

Perhaps one of the most important network monitoring tool in linux out there ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep’s common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It recognizes IPv4/6, [...]

So you’ve had a compromise and need to figure out which files (if any) were modified by the intruder, but you didn’t install Tripwire? Well, all is not lost if your distribution uses RPM for its package management system. While not as powerful as Tripwire, RPM can be useful for finding to what degree a [...]

If you’re looking for real-time network statistics, check out the terrific ntop tool (http://www.ntop.org). It is a full-featured protocol analyzer with a web frontend, complete with SSL and graphing support. Unfortunately, ntop isn’t exactly lightweight (the precise amount of resources required depend on the size of your network and the volume of network traffic), but [...]