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While surfing on Internet you could find an infected web site which would also infect your computer when visiting it, these web sites could also bee web sites from Governments and other serious companies, nobody is perfect!
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How many web sites are infected?
What you need to know!
Source ZDNET (March 2011): More than one million websites were believed to be infected with malware in the fourth quarter of 2010, nearly double the previous year, according to figures released by Dasient.
ICT is part of our real life
Our society, where IT is central part of it, is vulnerable to cybercrime. It is fed by an underground economy. Hackers have huge networks (botnets) of computers (PC Zombies) that have multiple applications: cyberwar, saturation of sites (DDOS attacks), sending spam ...
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5 years ago, 90% of attacks focused on operating systems (Windows) and 10% of applications. Today it is the exact opposite! "
Are there any tools for penetration testing and vulnerability tests?
Hopefully (of course) FREEWARE & Open Source?
Webmasters should always be aware of vulnerabilities and therefore maintain updates of the essential source code for these applications. The webmaster has a great responsibility to keep a web site secure , something not easy at all!But now, even having worked hard (non-serious webmasters are also existing...) how to know if a website is secure and so not to allow the internet mafia to hijack the web site?
Fortunately there are a multitude of tools that allow even free and extensive testing, also known as "Web site assessment", including server and applications. Check out following links please:
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The links proposed below are ONLY for testing on your own web sites!!! Any use of them for penetration tests on other web sites could bring you into prison!!!
My selection of Test Software...
Fortunately there are a multitude of tools that allow even free to do extensive testing, also known as "Web site assessment"...
Tools provided from http://www.security-database.com/toolswatch/
http://www.gamasec.com/
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Center for Internet Security
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Website Security - Acunetix Web Security Scanner
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http://www.nessus.org/
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http://www.sans.org/top20/#c1
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Snort :: Home Page
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http://www.watchfire.com/
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http://w3af.sourceforge.net/
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http://portswigger.net/burp
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