Tools to Secure your Desktop, Mobile Phone, & Website

Live Linux Security Distros

BackTrack 4 R2

BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Regardless if you're making BackTrack your primary operating system, booting from a LiveDVD, or using your favorite thumbdrive, BackTrack is customized down to every package, kernel configuration, script and patch solely for the purpose of the penetration tester.

Network Security Toolkit

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image based on Fedora 13 that provides easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications.

Astaro

Astaro Security Gateway is a unique network security solution in an integrated and easy-to-use and manage package. This includes a combination of security applications -a firewall, a VPN gateway, anti-virus, intrusion protection, spam filter, etc.

Frenzy 1.3

Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. Frenzy project generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis.

Desktop Security

SpamAssassin

SpamAssassin is a mail filter which attempts to identify spam using a variety of mechanisms including text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases.

ClamAV 0.96.5

The anti-virus toolkit, made especially for e-mail scanning provides a number of utilities including a scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates.

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a software for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. This means data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.

WiKID

The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a key-based two-factor authentication system. It is a flexible, extensible, and secure alternative to tokens, certs and passwords.

Web Security

Paros proxy

A Java based web proxy for assessing web application vulnerability. It supports editing/viewing HTTP/HTTPS messages on-the-fly to change items such as cookies and form fields. It includes a web traffic recorder, web spider, hash calculator, and a scanner for testing attacks such as SQL injection.

Wikto

Wikto is a tool that checks for flaws in webservers. Wikto is written for the MS .NET environment and registration is required to download the binary and/or source code.

SPIKE Proxy

This checks for application-level vulnerabilities in web applications. It covers the basics, such as SQL Injection and cross-site-scripting.

Mobile Security

iSpy Motion and Sound Detection

iSpy uses your webcams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting services.

Web KeePass Password Safe

This is a free, easy to use password manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.

Lookout

Lookout is always connected to ensure you have the most up-to-date, comprehensive protection at all times, automatically. You can initiate real-time or scheduled security and privacy scans.

NetQin Mobile Antivirus

NetQin Mobile Antivirus gives you a complete security solution; antivirus and real-time monitoring, backup/restore, anti-lost to locate and control your phone remotely, etc

F-Secure Anti-Theft

With F-Secure Anti-Theft for Mobile you can be sure that your personal and confidential information won't be misused by anyone after stealing you phone.

Data Management Tools

Easeus Data Recovery Wizard

Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a one-stop & free data recovery software to recover 1 GB data. It is a comprehensive file recovery freeware which can recover deleted files or folders even when they have been emptied from Recycle Bin.

PeaZip

PeaZip free file and archive manager

Partition Logic

Partition Logic is a hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.

Floola

There are a lot of music jukeboxes out there that aren't iTunes that work with iPods. Cross-platform Floola is one of the few, if only, portable music players that not only works with your iPod, it will work from your iPod, too. The program's fully compatible with your desktop iTunes installation, but can be run from the iPod itself.

Cloud Computing Software

OpenStack

OpenStack Object Storage is software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of accessible data. It is not a filesystem or real-time data storage system, but rather a long term storage system for a more permanent type of static data the can be retrieved, leveraged, and then updated if necessary.

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus enables the creation of on-premise private clouds, with no requirements for retooling the organization's existing IT infrastructure or need to introduce specialized hardware. Eucalyptus implements an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) private cloud that is accessible via an API compatible with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

jclouds 1.0 Beta 9

jclouds is an open source framework which helps developers to get started in the cloud and reuse their Java and Clojure development skills.

CloudStack

Cloud.com's CloudStack Community Edition is an open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software platform that allows users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments.