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The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), founded by TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, represents a best-of-breed model for rewarding security researchers for responsibly disclosing discovered vulnerabilities. The program's goal is threefold: 1. reward independent security research 2. promote and ensure the responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities 3. provide 3Com's TippingPoint division customers with the world's best security protection

Security-Freak.net is an attempt to lower the entry barrier for starting computer security research. During my interactions with security enthusiasts in general and students in particular, i have noticed that many lose interest because of the lack of organized learning resources in this area. This is not to undermine the sheer volume of tutorials written on various security related topics such as raw sockets, packet injection etc. But for most beginners it is very difficult to assimilate these voluminous documents at one go. This realization made me start Security-Freak.net .

P0f v2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool

BackTrack is the result of the merging of the two innovative penetration testing live linux distributions Auditor security collection and Whax. By combining the best features from both distributions and putting continous development energy, the most compl

Pentoo is a penetration testing LiveCD distribution based on Gentoo. It features a lot of tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities.

Cain & Abel is a very powerful tool that helps you to recover a number of passwords from Microsoft operating systems.

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP con

Burp suite is an integrated platform for attacking web applications. It contains all of the burp tools (proxy, spider, intruder and repeater) with numerous interfaces between them designed to facilitate and speed up the process of attacking a web applicat