This guide was compiled for educational purposes. Any unethical, illegal or other misuse is not condone or supported.

Useful Programs, OS, Applications and Add-ons for Security Checks and Intrustion Defense v1.0

Cain & Abel (Windows Only) Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It can recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. Cryptanalysis attacks are done via rainbow tables which can be generated with the winrtgen.exe program provided with Cain and Abel. http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

Wireshark (Cross Platform) Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. http://www.wireshark.org/

Truecrypt (Cross Platform) TrueCrypt is a free software application used for on-the-fly encryption. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or the entire storage device. (Does not work with Win 2000) http://www.truecrypt.org/

LOIC (Windows Only) Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application, written in C#. http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/ https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/

CCleaner (Cross Platform) CCleaner developed by Piriform is a Utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Backtrack (Linux OS) BackTrack is an operating system based on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use. http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

FireSheep (Firefox Add-on) Firesheep is an extension that uses a packet sniffer to intercept unencrypted cookies from social websites as the cookies are transmitted over networks, exploiting session hijacking vulnerabilities. It shows the discovered identities on a sidebar displayed in the browser, and allows the user to instantly take on the log-in credentials of the user by double-clicking on the victim's name. http://codebutler.com/firesheep?c=1

Blacksheep (Firefox Add-on)

BlackSheep is designed to combat Firesheep. BlackSheep drops fake session ID information on the wire and then monitors traffic to see if it has been hijacked. http://www.zscaler.com/blacksheep.html

John The Ripper (Cross Platform) John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the UNIX operating system, it currently runs on fifteen different platforms. http://www.openwall.com/john/

Hashcat (Cross Platform) Advanced Password Recovery http://hashcat.net/hashcat/

ElcomSoft (Company) ElcomSoft is a Russian software company specializing in computer security and data recovery applications. Popular products include their eBook processing and password recovery software supporting many of Microsoft's products. http://www.elcomsoft.com/download.html

Gmask Gmask is ancient software used to cover up porn photos. Some people use it to hide naughty images and some people use it to play a decoding game to solve the image. http://homepage3.nifty.com/furumizo/gmaskd_e.htm

This guide was compiled for educational purposes. Any unethical, illegal or other misuse is not condone or supported.