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Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. It started as Ethereal but was later re-branded as Wireshark due to trademark issues.

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Norton Smartphone Security Premier Edition (Beta) keeps your Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC, and Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone based smartphones safe. It offers: Antivirus protection: Symantec’s award-winning antivirus technology has been applied to smartphones to protect against mobile malware. AntiSpam for SMS: SMS spam messages are automatically placed in spam folder or deleted. Firewall: Controls inbound and outbound network traffic on the smartphone. Personal Data Protection: Automatically encrypt My Documents on logout. Device Password Protection: Require a password before accessing the smartphone and self-service password reset is done via a challenge question.

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Bluediving is a Bluetooth penetration testing suite. It implements attacks like Bluebug, BlueSnarf, BlueSnarf++, BlueSmack, has features such as Bluetooth address spoofing, an AT and a RFCOMM socket shell and implements tools like carwhisperer, bss, L2CAP packetgenerator, L2CAP connection resetter, RFCOMM scanner and greenplaque scanning mode (using more than one hci device).

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Aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact aircrack is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.

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Airsnarf is a simple rogue wireless access point setup utility designed to demonstrate how a rogue AP can steal usernames and passwords from public wireless hotspots. Airsnarf was developed and released to demonstrate an inherent vulnerability of public 802.11b hotspots–snarfing usernames and passwords by confusing users with DNS and HTTP redirects from a competing AP.

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AirTight Networks enables enterprises and service providers to maintain network and mobile client integrity from wireless security vulnerabilities whether or not they deploy a wireless network. AirTight Networks offers the industry’s first wireless IPS (WIPS) that delivers around-the-clock wireless monitoring and automatic intrusion prevention as well as manages wireless network performance for maximum capacity and uptime.

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Hotspotter passively monitors the network for probe request frames to identify the preferred networks of Windows XP clients, and will compare it to a supplied list of common hotspot network names. If the probed network name matches a common hotspot name, Hotspotter will act as an access point to allow the client to authenticate and associate. Once associated, Hotspotter can be configured to run a command, possibly a script to kick off a DHCP daemon and other scanning against the new victim.

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The FortiGate-50B, 60-series, 100A, 200A and 300A model Multi-Threat Security systems are the ultimate all-in-one, network-based solution to protect smaller deployments from blended threats. These easy-to-deploy and easy-to-administer systems deliver exceptional value and performance for small offices, home offices, small and medium sized businesses and branch office applications. With a complete complement of security services – including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus, web filtering, and traffic shaping – a wide range of organizations can now enjoy complete protection from the most damaging threats without penalties in performance, cost, or manageability. With models ranging in throughput from 30Mbps to 200Mbps, FortiGate-50B, 60-series, 100A, 200A and 300A can enable organizations to stay connected and protected against network-based threats. Sonicwall and Netscreen also offer all-in-one hardware firewalls for SMEs.

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Arudius is an information assurance (IA) Linux live CD with tools for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis. Information assurance has many other aspects besides network security. The CD consists of a Zenwalk Linux base on top of which a large collection of network security testing software (full list) has been installed – including tools listed on Insecure.org Top 75 list plus many other tools listed on Freshmeat, Sf.net and other information assurance sites around the world.

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WatchGuard firewall and VPN appliances deliver the complete unified threat management (UTM), with built-in zero day protection, good performance, ease of use, and value for your growing network. The fully integrated security services give continually updated, multifaceted network protection from spyware, spam, viruses, worms, trojans, Web-based exploits, and blended threats. Watchguard firewalls run security-hardened Linux-based operating system and their gateway anti-virus is powered by ClamAV.

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