Tools used by security professionals
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Why is FireSheep such a big deal?
We've had WireShark and other tools for a long time before. Why does everybody make such a big deal about FireSheep?
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Tools and methodologies to share pentest and/or source code analysis results
I would like to hear from you which tools (commercial and open source) do you use to share results during collaborative penetration test or source code/binary analysis. Well-known Dradis framework ...
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Open-source penetration-test automation
Has anyone built a metascript, or a `script of scripts' useful during a penetration-test?
Do you use Metasploit RC files? A network vulnerability scanner in a special way? A command-line, custom, or ...
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What benefits does Nessus have over OpenVAS?
Nessus and OpenVAS appear to have fairly similar features. Why would you choose one over the other, besides the benefit of commercial support (which isn't available for Nessus Home Feed users ...
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Web Crawler for ASP.NET site
Do you know any crawler/spider software, which is able to go through ASP.NET application, not ASP.NET MVC, but the one full of __doPostBack JavaScript functions on every link/button/change event?
If ...
