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View Poll Results: Network Security Application of the Year
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aircrack-ng
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17 |
6.75% |
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Bro IDS
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0 |
0% |
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ClamAV
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31 |
12.30% |
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dsniff
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1 |
0.40% |
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fail2ban
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25 |
9.92% |
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Firestarter
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5 |
1.98% |
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fwBuilder
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1 |
0.40% |
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Guarddog
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1 |
0.40% |
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kismet
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1 |
0.40% |
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Metasploit
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18 |
7.14% |
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Nessus
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6 |
2.38% |
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Nikto
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2 |
0.79% |
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Nmap Security Scanner
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39 |
15.48% |
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OpenVAS
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1 |
0.40% |
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p0f
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0 |
0% |
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Shorewall
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13 |
5.16% |
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snort
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5 |
1.98% |
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tcpdump
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12 |
4.76% |
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Wireshark
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65 |
25.79% |
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UFW/Gufw
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9 |
3.57% |
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12-17-2012, 06:53 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,532
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Network Security Application of the Year
What's your favorite network-based security tool?
--jeremy
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12-18-2012, 09:45 PM
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#2
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Chico, CA, USA
Distribution: Linux Mint
Posts: 704
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I'm struggling between Firestarter and Shorewall. I've used them both, and have made good use of both. Firestarter is easy, graphical (a rarity with IPTables frontends, I find), and good for most new users. Shorewall is immensely powerful and customizable, but requires a manual to even utter its name (but is still better than raw IPTables, IMHO).
This year, I'll pick Firestarter. Last year, I think it was Shorewall. Next year...?
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12-19-2012, 02:47 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 181
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fail2ban! It's the only one in the list that I use. It does everything I need but with less of a headache than raw iptables, and with very little overhead too.
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12-20-2012, 05:05 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Middx UK
Distribution: Slackware64 14.0 (multilib)
Posts: 1,165
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Easy Firewall Generator
I used to use guarddog but I am not sure that's usable now in kde4.
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12-21-2012, 12:06 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2010
Location: London, UK
Distribution: Slackware -current; Scientific Linux; CentOS; Debian
Posts: 363
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only just learned to use tcpdump, and wished I had learned it years ago.
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12-21-2012, 02:35 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2012
Distribution: CentOS or Debian
Posts: 10
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Aircrack-ng, Wireshark, Metasploit, and Nmap are the only tools I've used (or know how to use as of yet).
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12-24-2012, 03:02 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2006
Location: USA
Distribution: CentOS,Mint,openSuSE,Ubuntu,FBSD
Posts: 12
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Wireshark is pretty awesome, once you start using all the power it brings you, including scripting; colorizing packets & sessions, tshark for captures.
Security Onion is an entire security monitoring console including many individual security apps including snort, suricata, squert, snorby, sguil, and others. The best (FREE) full system package in the business.
Last edited by thumbelina; 12-24-2012 at 03:15 AM.
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12-24-2012, 03:19 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: 1 AU from a G2V star
Distribution: PCLinuxOS LXDE
Posts: 65
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Shorewall
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01-01-2013, 08:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2013
Location: /home
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 37
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iptables + nethogs
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01-02-2013, 10:32 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: France
Distribution: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS
Posts: 135
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You're missing Ubuntu's uncomplicated firewall: ufw and Gufw.
http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/ |
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01-02-2013, 10:35 AM
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root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,532
Original Poster
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UFW/Gufw has been added.
--jeremy
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01-02-2013, 04:38 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2012
Location: Northern US
Distribution: Mageia, RHEL, CentOS & Scientific Linux
Posts: 66
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I actually use quite a few of those listed but Metasploit is best!
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01-03-2013, 11:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Malaysia - KULMY / CNXTH
Distribution: Slackware, Fedora, FreeBSD, Sun O/S 5.10, CentOS
Posts: 741
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I use wireshark and nessus, I dont know what other the best but i will try most voted apps when last poll end 
Last edited by routers; 01-03-2013 at 11:36 PM.
Reason: typo
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01-15-2013, 11:03 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 14
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What about just plain old iptables?
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01-22-2013, 10:09 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04
Posts: 312
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astaro /sophos home user license.
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