Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 16:47:36 +0000 From: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IT security and pentesting tools on FreeBSD Message-ID: <52C05228.6000603@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20131229165032.6b82d8a0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20131229143625.b3f3a2cf.freebsd@edvax.de> <52C04198.5070102@fjl.co.uk> <20131229165032.6b82d8a0.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 29/12/2013 15:50, Polytropon wrote: >> I developed an MSc course in "ethical hacking" a few years ago, and I >> >used FreeBSD throughout (not Linux). The big ones you missed off the >> >list are SARA (Security Auditor's Research Assistant) and Metasploit. >> >SARA was an NMAP-type scanner that looked for vulnerabilities (including >> >the NVD Database). Unfortunately it's no longer being updated:-( And >> >you also have ot port it to FreeBSD yourself - so trivial I don't even >> >remember doing it. > If that's possible, it sounds interesting. > I don't think there was a port of Metasploit Framework when I first used it - and it was written in perl then. It wasn't hard. I guess my point is that these things require less effort to get working on FreeBSD than you might think, and I had no problem running courses in a FreeBSD-only shop. I preferred the predictability of FreeBSD to the Linux alternative. Regards, Frank.
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