Penetration Testing Tools

The following is a large list of the different penetration testing applications that are available.  No single one of these tools will make you an expert, but each serves a function.  In many cases it comes down to personel preferance.

rwhois
lft
sing
etherape
amap
nmbscan
nbtscan
admsmb
netleak
dmitry
sara
xprobe2
p0f2
isic
firewalk
dnsa
nemesis
packit
bento
BGPview
zodiacdns
icmpenum
fragroute
sentry 2.0
Caecus
C-Parse
dnstracer
ssldump
ftester
mtr
MRTG
pchar

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