Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together many of today’s best security distributions and portable applications to run off a single Flash Drive. It includes distributions which focus on Pen-Testing, Auditing, Forensics, System Recovery, Network Analysis, and Malware Removal. Katana also comes with over 100 portable Windows applications; such as Wireshark, Metasploit, […]
Networking Hacking Tools
Networking Hacking is an offensive branch of computer security related to networks hacking and the penetration of a target via the networking services or equipment.
Examples of network hacking tools include Kismet – Wireless Network Hacking, Sniffing & Monitoring, THC-Hydra – The Fast and Flexible Network Login Hacking Tool, Infernal Twin Updated 2.6.11 – Automated Wireless Hacking Suite and Firesheep – Social Network Session Stealing/Hijacking Tool.
Network hacking would also include WLAN hacking, wifi hacking, wireless hacking, Cisco hacking and so on which would rely on various different types of network hacking software.
Types of Networking Hacking
In this day and age, pretty much all hacking takes place across some kind of network (be it a private network or LAN, the public Internet, a darknet, public radio networks or any other kind).
You can find the best resources and networking hacking tools below.
ddosim v0.2 – Application Layer DDOS Simulator
DDOSIM simulates several zombie hosts (having random IP addresses) which create full TCP connections to the target server. After completing the connection, DDOSIM starts the conversation with the listening application (e.g. HTTP server). Can be used only in a laboratory environment to test the capacity of the target server to handle application specific DDOS attacks. […]
Hotmail Always-On Encryption Breaks Microsoft’s Own Apps
Oh look, Microsoft is late to the party again? They are finally launching full-session SSL encryption to Hotmail a mere 2 years after Google did the same thing for Gmail. It looks like the release of FireSheep really has had an impact on web-application vendors due to the amount of mainstream media coverage it got […]
GNS3 – Graphical Network Simulator
GGNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows simulation of complex networks. It’s an excellent complementary tool to real labs for network engineers, administrators and people wanting to pass certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIP, CCIE, JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIE. It can also be used to experiment features of Cisco IOS, Juniper JunOS or to check […]
Half Of Home Wi-Fi Networks In The UK Vulnerable to Hacking/WiFi-Jacking
Once again WiFi security is in the news, this time a new report in the UK shows that almost half of UK home WiFi networks could be compromised within 5 seconds. While that sounds a little dramatic it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot still have no WEP key at all. And even if they […]