Alpine security

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Note: This is work in progress. Not all packages are available at the moment


Alpine Security provides a toolset to work on security auditing, forensics, system rescue, and teaching security testing methodologies.

Basics

Name Description URL
alpine-base Alpine base package http://alpinelinux.org
alpine-mirrors List of Alpine Linux Mirrors http://alpinelinux.org/
bkeymaps Binary keymaps for busybox http://dev.alpinelinux.org/alpine/bkeymaps

Code Analysis

Name Description URL
rpmlint A tool for checking common errors in RPM packages http://rpmlint.zarb.org
pylint Analyzes Python code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylint
flawfinder Examines C/C++ source code for security flaws http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/
rats A tool to find security related programming errors https://www.fortify.com/ssa-elements/threat-intelligence/rats.html


Forensics / Data recovery tools

Name Description URL
dc3dd Patched version of GNU dd for use in computer forensics http://dc3dd.sourceforge.net/
testdisk A powerful free data recovery software http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
scrub Disk scrubbing program http://code.google.com/p/diskscrub/
ncdu A curses-based version of the well-known "du" http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
htop An interactive process viewer for Linux http://htop.sourceforge.net/
mac-robber A tool that collects data from allocated files in a mounted file system http://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber/desc.php
wipe Tool for securely erasing files from magnetic media http://lambda-diode.com/software/wipe/
nwipe Securely erase disks using a variety of recognized methods http://nwipe.sourceforge.net


Reconnaissance

Name Description URL
arpon ARP handler inspection http://arpon.sourceforge.net/
dnsenum A tool to enumerate DNS info about domains http://code.google.com/p/dnsenum/
halberd A tool to discover HTTP load balancers http://halberd.superadditive.com/
scanssh Fast SSH server and open proxy scanner http://monkey.org/~provos/scanssh/
ngrep Network layer grep tool http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/
netsniff-ng A performant Linux network analyzer and networking toolkit http://netsniff-ng.org/
scapy Interactive packet manipulation tool and network scanner http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
socat Bidirectional data relay between two data channels ('netcat++') http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
tcpdump A network traffic monitoring tool http://www.tcpdump.org/
tcptrack Displays information about tcp connections on a network interface http://www.rhythm.cx/~steve/devel/tcptrack/
tcpflow A tool for monitoring, capturing and storing TCP connections flows http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/
tcpproxy Transparent TCP Proxy http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/proxies/TcpProxy
etherdump An extremely small packet sniffer http://freshmeat.net/projects/etherdump/
netdiscover A network address discovering tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/netdiscover/
arpwatch An ethernet monitoring program http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/
nfswatch An NFS traffic monitoring tool http://nfswatch.sourceforge.net/


Web Application Testing

Name Description URL
wbox HTTP testing tool and configuration-less HTTP server http://www.hping.org/wbox/


Misc tools

Name Description URL
iptraf A console-based network monitoring utility http://iptraf.seul.org/
iptop Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/
clamav An anti-virus toolkit for UNIX http://www.clamav.net
p7zip A command-line port of the 7zip compression utility http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
nano A simple ncurses text editor http://www.nano-editor.org/
ethtool ... ...
fping A utility to ping multiple hosts at once http://fping.sourceforge.net/
rsync A file transfer program to keep remote files in sync http://rsync.samba.org/
screen A window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
multitail A tool to view one or multiple files http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail
shed A simple hex editor http://shed.sourceforge.net/
mtr Full screen ncurses traceroute tool http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
e2fsprogs Standard Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
openssh An open source implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2 http://www.openssh.org/
passwdgen A random password generator http://code.google.com/p/passwdgen/
partclone Back up and restore used-blocks of a partition http://partclone.org


Wireless

Name Description URL
weplab Analyzing WEP encryption security on wireless networks http://weplab.sourceforge.net/
kismet A WLAN detector, sniffer, and IDS http://www.kismetwireless.org/
cowpatty Attacking WPA/WPA2-PSK exchanges http://www.willhackforsushi.com/Cowpatty.html


Intrusion detection

Name Description URL
nebula An Intrusion Signature Generator http://nebula.carnivore.it/
snort A network intrusion prevention and detection system http://www.snort.org/