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The Bastille Hardening program "locks down" an operating system, proactively configuring the system for increased security and decreasing its susceptibility to compromise. Bastille can also assess a system's current state of hardening, granularly reporting on each of the security settings with which it works.

BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

A general-purpose SSL cryptographic wrapper
The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server. It can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd daemons like POP2, POP3, and IMAP servers without any changes in the programs' code. It will negotiate an SSL connection using the OpenSSL or SSLeay libraries.

Locally checks for signs of a rootkit.
chkrootkit is a flexible, portable tool that can check for many signs of rootkit intrusion on Unix-based systems. Its features include detecting binary modification, utmp/wtmp/lastlog modifications, promiscuous interfaces, and malicious kernel modules.

OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

Tiger is a security tool that can be use both as a security audit and intrusion detection system. It supports multiple UNIX platforms and it is free and provided under a GPL license. Unlike other tools, Tiger needs only of POSIX tools and is written entirely in shell language.

Tiger has some interesting features that merit its resurrection, including a modular design that is easy to expand, and its double edge, it can be used as an audit tool and a host intrusion detection system tool. Free Software intrusion detection is currently going many ways, from network IDS (with Snort), to the kernel (LIDS, or SNARE for Linux and Systrace for OpenBSD, for example), not mentioning file integrity checkers (many of these: aide, integrit samhain, tripwire...) and logcheckers (even more of these, check the Log Analysis pages). But few of them focus on the host-side of intrusion detection fully. Tiger complements this tools and also provides a framework in which all of them can work together. Tiger it is not a logchecker, nor it focused in integrity analysis. It does "the other stuff", it checks the system configuration and status. Read the manpage for a full description of checks implemented in Tiger. A good example of what Tiger can do is, for example, check_findelete, a module that can determine which network servers running in a system are using deleted files (because libraries were patched during an upgrade but the server's services not restarted).

Free software Linux/*BSD distributions have a myriad of security tools to do local security checks: Debian's checksecurity, Mandrake's msec, OpenBSD's /etc/security, SUSE's Seccheck... but, even if they do similar checks they have suffered from fragmentation. Tiger is being developed in the hopes that it could substitute them at some point in the future. For a list of system security checks that Tiger provides that others do not you can read this (short) comparison.

Find more information in the project page at Savannah.

Modern Linux distributions offer some mitigation techniques to make it harder to exploit software vulnerabilities reliably. Mitigations such as RELRO, NoExecute (NX), Stack Canaries, Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Position Independent Executables (PIE) have made reliably exploiting any vulnerabilities that do exist far more challenging. The checksec.sh script is designed to test what standard Linux OS and PaX security features are being used.

Social-Engineer Toolkit, or SET, was designed by David Kennedy (ReL1K) with the intent of automating the social engineering aspect of penetration testing. With a very easy to use menu driven interface, SET will assist you in establishing remote command execution shells with those who fall victim to your phishing campaigns. Those familiar with Fast-Track, another project that David Kennedy (ReL1K) is a primary contributor to, will notice a very similar feel between the two programs. This was intentional as SET is now included as a module within Fast-Track. Those with Fast-Track already installed need only use the "Update Everything" menu option in order to automatically obtain a copy of SET.

Considerably more information pertaining to the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) can be obtained at the following address:
http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/Social-Engineering-Toolkit

Current Version (at time of writing): Version 0.3

To download & obtain a copy of SET:
#svn co http://svn.thepentest.com/social_engineering_toolkit

*Note: If you installed via Fast-Track's "Update Everything" menu option and you are wondering where it copied the files..
#cd /pentest/exploits/set
#./set

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