JFYI ----- Forwarded message from Fyodor ----- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 00:33:30 -0700 From: Fyodor To: nmap-hackers@insecure.org Subject: 2003 Top 75 Tools Results Hello everyone, Thanks for the fantastic response to the Nmap user survey! It is now closed, but recorded 1854 responses -- that blew away our goal of 1500 and is over 50% greater than the 2000 survey! I haven't analyzed all the questions/comments yet, but I did go through your recommended tools and create a most-loved list as I did in 2000. Thanks to the increased responses, I was able to expand the list from "Top 50" to "Top 75". I also included better descriptions, and even some pretty icons :). I learned about some valuable new tools myself, and heartily recommend going through the list and investigating any you are unfamiliar with. The new list of winners are available at: http://www.insecure.org/tools.html It is worth noting that almost half of the 2003 top 50 are new to the list. Congratulations to these rising stars: GFI LANguard: A commercial network security scanner for Windows Ettercap: In case you still thought switched LANs provide much extra security Nikto: A more comprehensive web scanner Kismet: A powerful wireless sniffer SuperScan: Foundstone's Windows TCP port scanner Fport: Foundstone's enhanced netstat Network Stumbler: Free Windows 802.11 Sniffer N-Stealth: Web server scanner AirSnort: 802.11 WEP Encryption Cracking Tool NBTScan: Gathers NetBIOS info from Windows networks Cain & Abel: The poor man's L0phtcrack XProbe2: Active OS fingerprinting tool SolarWinds Toolsets: A plethora of network discovery/monitoring/attack tools THC-Amap: An application fingerprinting scanner OpenSSL: The premier SSL/TLS encryption library Honeyd: Your own personal honeynet Achilles: A Windows web attack proxy Brutus: A network brute-force authentication cracker Stunnel: A general-purpose SSL cryptographic wrapper Paketto Keiretsu: Extreme TCP/IP SPIKE Proxy: HTTP Hacking THC-Hydra: Parallized network authentication cracker [ There are also many new tools in the 50-75 rankings ] -------------------------------------------------- For help using this (nmap-hackers) mailing list, send a blank email to nmap-hackers-help@insecure.org . List run by ezmlm-idx (www.ezmlm.org). ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ldv