Metasploit Framework (The best hacking tool )

  What is Metasploit Framework ?

Metasploit software helps security and IT professionals identify security issues, verify vulnerability mitigations, and manage expert-driven security assessments, providing true security risk intelligence. Capabilities include smart exploitation, password auditing, web application scanning, and social engineering. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports.
Metasploit editions range from a free edition to professional enterprise editions, all based on the Metasploit Framework, an open source software development kit with the world's largest, public collection of quality-assured exploits.
Metasploit can help penetration test, can find vulnerability,payload,exploit etc…
(more tutorial will come soon about metasploit)

 What is a vulnerability?

GFI LanGuard (Vulnerability scanning tool)

GFI LanGuard gives you a complete picture of your network setup and helps you to maintain a secure and compliant network state. It does this faster and more effectively through its automated patch management features and with minimal administrative effort

Over 50,000 vulnerability assessments are carried out across your network, including your virtual environments.

GFI LanGuard checks your operating system, virtual environments and installed applications using vulnerability check databases such as OVAL and SANS Top 20. It allows you to analyze the state of your network security, what the risks are, how exposed your network is and how to take action before it is compromised.

   Download Link :: here

   Official website : www.gfi.com

Banner Grabbing Countermeasures : Disabling or Changing Banner

IIS User can use these tools to disable or change banner information :  

•  IIS LOCKDOWN TOOL         Website : www.microsoft.com 

                                 Download Link ::       here                                  

• SERVERMASK             

                                 Website : http://www.port80software.com/products/servermask/
                                 Download Link ::       here                  

ID Serve : Banner Grabbing Tool

ID Serve is used to identify the make,
model, and version of any website's
server software.


It is also used to Identify non-HTTP
(non web) Internet servers, such as FTP,
SMTP, POP, NEWS, etc...

Smart Whois (Loockup Tools)

SmartWhois is a useful network information utility that allows you to look up all the available information about an IP address, hostname or domain, including country, state or province, city, name of the network provider, administrator and technical support contact information. It helps you find answers to these important questions:

• Who is the owner of the domain?
• When was the domain registered and what is the owner's contact information?
• Who is the owner of the IP address block? 

Classroom Spy (Live screen)

Classroom Spy lets you see what everyone's doing - without leaving your desk. You can monitor the activity of all the PCs in your classroom remotely. Plus, you can share your screen with your students' PCs, making demos and presentations much easier.


Top features :
What is it useful for?

• For monitoring and recording your students activities on a remote computers

Friendly Pinger 5.0 (network inventory..)

Friendly Pinger - is a powerful and user-friendly application for network administration, monitoring and inventory.

• Visualization of your computer network as a beautiful animated screen;
• Monitoring network devices availability;
• Notification when any server wakes up or goes down;
• Ping of all devices in parallel at once;
• Audit software and hardware components installed on the computers over the network;

Portable Storage Explorer (Display remote network...)

Portable Storage Explorer displays remote network computer USB devices, removable storage, CD-Rom and DVD drive information and state, drive type, serial number, revision, device name, last cleaned time, device vendor and product name, operational state, created and modified time, device library and more... You must have administrative privileges on the remote network computer. All the mentioned features are provided with a user friendly graphical interface.

Dropbox (Backup your files on the net)

Any file you save to Dropbox also instantly saves to your computers, phones, and the Dropbox website.

• 2GB of Dropbox for free, with subscriptions up to 100GB available.
• Your files are always available from the secure Dropbox website.
• Dropbox works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
• Works even when offline. You always have your files, whether or not you have a connection.
• Dropbox transfers just the parts of a file that change (not the whole thing).