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McAfee: 26% of companies have suffered cloud data theft.

Enterprises are moving their data to the cloud, but not everybody is certain that the cloud is as secure as it could be, according to the third annual report on cloud security from cybersecurity firm  McAfee . This is due in part to the fact that one in four companies has been hit with cloud data theft. McAfee released its third annual report ahead of the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. The survey polled 1,400 global information technology professionals in the fourth quarter. Above: Companies are storing sensitive data in the cloud, but not all are confident it is secure. About 83 percent of organizations that use the cloud have experienced at least one security incident. Common issues include lack of data visibility within cloud applications (30 percent), theft from cloud applications by a malicious actor (26 percent), incomplete control over who can access sensitive data (25 percent), and “shadow IT” provisioning cloud applications outside IT visib...

Etherape

Tool Category: Multi Purpose Tools Cost of Tool:  Free What is Etherape? Etherape is a Graphical Network Monitor that is modeled after etherman. It features an IP, TCP and link layer modes that displays network activity graphically. Links and hosts change in size with traffic. It also has a color coded protocols displays. This tool supports Hardware and Protocols such as FDDI, Ethernet, ISDN, Token Ring, SLIP, PPP and WLAN devices plus a lot of encapsulation formats. EtherApe can filter traffic to be shown and can read packets coming from a file as well as life from the network. Node statistics can also be exported. Is Etherape Free? Yes, Etherape is free to use. Does Etherape Work on all Operating Systems? Etherape works on Linux and MAC OS X operating systems. What are the Typical Uses for Etherape? Etherape is primarily used to track several types of network traffic.

Social-Engineer Toolkit

It is an advanced framework for simulating multiple types of social engineering attacks like credential harvestings, phishing attacks, and more. It automates the attacks and generates disguising emails, malicious web pages and more.

Aircrack-ng

Password Cracking Tool Cost of Tool:  Free The Aircrack suite of Wifi (Wireless) hacking tools are legendary because they are very effectively when used in the right hands. For those new to this wireless-specific hacking program, Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking hacking tool that can recover keys when sufficient data packets have been captured (in monitor mode). For those tasked with penetrating and auditing wireless networks Aircrack-ng will become your best friend. It’s useful to know that Aircrack-ng implements standard FMS attacks along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the PTW attacks to make their attacks more potent. If you are a mediocre hacker then youll be able to crack WEP in a few minutes and you ought to be pretty proficient at being able to crack WPA/ WPA2. For those interested in Wireless Hacking we’d also highly recommend taking a look at the very awesome Reaver, another very popular hacking tool that alas we coul...

Cain and Abel Hacking Tool

Password Cracker/ Password Hacking Cost of Tool:  Free Cain and Abel (often simply abbreviated to Cain) is a hugely popular hacking tool and one that is very often mentioned online in a variety of ‘hacking tutorials’. At its’ heart, Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows but it can be used off-label in a variety of uses, for example, white and black hat hackers use Cain to recover (i.e. ‘crack’) many types of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing and by using the tool to crack password hashes. Cain, for example, when used to crack password hashes would use methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force, rainbow table attacks and cryptanalysis attacks.

Nikto Website Vulnerability Scanner

Website Vulnerability Scanner Hacking Tool Cost of Tool:  Free Nikto is another classic ‘Hacking Tool’ that a lot of pentesters like to use. Worth mentioning that Nickto is sponsored by Netsparker (which is yet another Hacking Tool that we have also listed in our directory). Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which is able to scan and detect web servers for vulnerabilities. The system searches against a database of over 6800 potentially dangerous files/ programs when scanning software stacks. Nikto, like other scanners out there, also scans for outdated (unpatched) versions of over 1300 servers, and version specific problems on over 275 servers. Interestingly, Nikto can also check server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server options, and the platform will also try to identify installed web servers and web applications. Nikto will get picked up by any semi-decent IDS tool so its’ really useful when conducting a white-hat/ w...