LinSSID is a Wi-Fi network scanner. It’s graphically and functionally similar to Inssider.
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wavemon – ncurses-based monitoring for wireless network devices
wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application. Watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and more.
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horst – Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool
horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 WLAN analyzer with a text interface.
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Kismet – networking software
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It works with wireless cards which supports raw monitoring.
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aircrack-ng – WiFi security auditing tools suite
aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
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airgeddon – multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks
airgeddon is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks. The script offers a wide range of features.
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bettercap – Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks
bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks.
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Universal Radio Hacker – complete suite for wireless protocol investigation
URH is a complete suite for wireless protocol investigation with native support for many common Software Defined Radios.
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Nagios – host and service monitor
Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems. The monitoring daemon runs periodic checks on hosts and services.
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PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative
PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under the LGPL. PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Port Scanners
Linux has a good range of port scanners that help administrators identify and rectify weaknesses in a system.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Password Managers
A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – Security
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering security software, firewalls, web application firewalls, email encryption, port scanners.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Disk Encryption Tools
Keep your data safe. There are many different useful tools that offer disk encryption. We recommend the best free and open source solutions.
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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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