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VoIP Hopper - opensource Security Tool in openSUSE/SUSE Linux

Posted by admin on 3rd October 2008

VoIP Hopper is a free opensource security tool for Linux/Unix that rapidly runs a VLAN Hop into the Voice VLAN on specific Ethernet switches. VoIP Hopper mimicks the behavior of an IP Phone, in both Cisco and Avaya IP Phone environments to hope into the Voice VLAN.  VoIP Hopper is both a VLAN Hop test tool and a tool to test VoIP infrastructure security.

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How to configure sudo and delegate authority in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 8th September 2008

Sudo which is su “do” allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments.sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file.

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OpenVAS - Opensource Vulnerability Assessment Scanner

Posted by admin on 23rd August 2008


OpenVAS, Open Vulnerability Assessment Server is a free opensource  vulnerability assessment software released under GNU GPL lincese. OpenVAS is a fork of Nessus Vulnerability assessment software. Similar to the Plugin sets in Nessus, OpenVAS provides free Network Vulnerability Tests plugins that can be updated regularly.

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Nessus Vulnerability Scanner in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 22nd August 2008


The Nessus vulnerability scanner, is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. Nessus can also be used for ad-hoc scanning, daily scans, and quick-response audits.

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Ratproxy - Passive web application security assessment tool

Posted by admin on 10th July 2008


Ratproxy is an opensource semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool from the search giant Google. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized specifically for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments.

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