The top 7 anti-hacking products for Linux
In our days not only Windows users should protect their systems against the penetration of intruders and crackers to your personal computer. We should have in mind that Linux is as the dream come true of the hacker community and there are too many opportunity to hack computers (Linux to Linux) due the great capacity this operating system has to support too many hacking tools. Linux users also should be aware of that and must take advantages of the anti-hacking and security tools that will help you to protect your system from malicious visits. In this articles I would like to make a list of the most reliable and popular tools that are effectively working for this purpose. My attempt is not making exactly a top 7 list but at least embrace all the popular security and anti-hacking software available for Linux.
1. John the ripper: Look at the name of this software; the name is real funny, but this tool is amazing. It’s a complete free password cracking that was previously operated under UNIX. When you set passwords in your Linux systems you can use “John the ripper” to test the robustness or weakness of your passwords.
2. Nmanp: It is a wonderful network security scanner with the capacity to detect and report vulnerabilities in your network. With this tool you can scan computers that are operating in a network and obtain detailed information about the running applications and other relevant information of each workstation.
3. Nessus: It is an intelligent software that helps you to detect which are the open ports and other vulnerabilities of your personal computer running in Linux. Nessus is one of the simplest ways to detect and avoid the infiltration of remote users to your systems. Furthermore, Nessus has the reputation to be used form more than 80,000 companies and institutions around the world.
4. Chkrootkit: Check Root Kit is known as software which has the purpose to be a companion of system administrators checking the status process status of applications in the operating system. You can download this tool without fee from its official webpage.
5. Wireshark: WireShark is a wonderful tool that helps network and system administrators to troubleshoot your network. WireShark has too many advanced features that help you to communicate and analyze all kind of problems in your local network. Furthermore, you can take critical decisions with the results from the analysis from WireShark.
6. Netcat: During the year 2000; Netcat received the award of the most used security tool for all kind of networks. Currently this is one of the most powerful networking utilities for reading and writing to/from networks.
7. Kismet: It is wonderful packet sniffer and network detector software. With Kismet you will be able to detect all kind of intrusion to your systems. Kismet is accurate and reliable software that can be operated under every Linux operating system. Now that we are living in the Wireless era, Kismet supports all kind of wireless card with the capacity to accept row monitoring mode.
