Security Scanners

Network Computing's review of several commercial and open-source Vulnerability Assessment Scanners.

A freeware IP scanner for Windows. Display NetBIOS information, MAC address; save result to CSV, TXT, HTML or XML file.

Security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other flavors of Unix. Performs over 900 remote security checks, and suggests solutions for security problems.

Contains a cgi script scanner with 11 anti-IDS tactics and +2200 vulnerable scripts in the database; and a port scanner with banner grabber.

A security scanner that runs on Win2k/XP and Linux. It has an extensible rule engine and ships with over 1000 vulnerability tests.

Provides information such as service pack level of the machine, missing security patches, open shares, open ports, services/applications active on the computer, key registry entries, and weak passwords. Remotely install security patches and service packs.

Identifies security vulnerabilities, suggests appropriate corrective actions and fixes. Free MyDoom, Nimda, DCOM, Sapphire SQL Worm, and Nimda scanner downloads.

This tool enables the user to retrieve a list of computer host names, logon account names, MS IIS service status, and/or determine the use of non-LocalSystem accounts (used to start services).

It includes network/host scanner, a set of additional features currently limited to whois and traceroute and numerous options to fully customize the scan process.

An appliance-based solution that proactively discovers and assesses network vulnerabilities and exposures to protect networks and IP-enabled devices.

A web server scanner which performs tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 2200 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 140 servers, and problems on over 210 servers.

This script looks for certain security issues within an Oracle database. This scanner accompanies a white paper published on security focus at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1522.

Audits Lotus Domino web servers. Produces an HTML report that provides a list of all the unique .nsf databases it was able to access, as well as IP addresses and email addresses.

TCP and UDP portscanner and NetBIOS scanner, Displays installed service packs, open TCP and UDP ports, missing security patches.

Patch management tool scans Microsoft servers and desktops. Schedule and immediate remote patch scans and installations. Freeware and command-line versions available.

Network security scanning software for detecting, auditing, and fixing network security exploits and vulnerabilities.

Free firewall, privacy and browser security test.

Online vulnerability scanner which scans for SANS "top ten" vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Assessment, Intrusion Detection and Prevention.

Vulnerability-assessment product that scans web servers to identify security problems and weaknesses on local and remote web servers. Commercial and free editions are available.

Network vulnerability assessment scanner.

Open source tool that tries to determine which protocols will pass through an IP firewall.

Description and download of the GPL-licensed firewall testing and documentation tool.

A password security test tool that's designed to identify and close security holes by executing an audit of account passwords, and exposing insecure account passwords.

Review of six vulnerability scanners.

Web application security testing software. Product details, downloads, how to order and screenshots.

Penetration testing scanner that locates and assesses the strength of databases and web applications within your network.

Security scanners and assessment tools for Oracle, Domino, and SQL Server. Checks for weak passwords and vulnerability to SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

Offers vulnerability auditing modules for many systems and services. These include: NetBIOS, HTTP, CGI and WinCGI, FTP, DNS, DoS vulnerabilities, POP3, SMTP, LDAP, TCP/IP, UDP, Registry, Services, Users and Accounts, password vulnerabilities, publishing extensions, MSSQL, IBM BD2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgressSQL, Interbase, and MiniSQL.

Security scan for Domino web servers.

An open-source utility to realize vulnerability checks and enhance security audits.

A webserver security scanner based on twwwscan.

Microsoft tool scans for instances of MS SQL Server 2000 vulnerable to the "Slammer" worm, and then apply updates to the affected files. Includes SQL Scan, SQL Check,and SQL Critical Update.

Free online tool to check the security of FileMaker Pro databases that are published on the web.

TCP, UDP, NetBios scanner.

Developers of NMAP, a network port scanner and service detector offering stealth SYN scan, ping sweep, FTP bounce, UDP scan and operating system fingerprinting. Downloads, documentation, security tools directory and a mailing lists archive. [Windows, MacOS, Unix]

Network scanning and auditing software which scans your network or webserver for over 20,000 exploits.

Free security scan manager incorporating Nessus vulnerability scanning, dns and nmb lookup, host resolving, and nmap fingerprinting and scanning.

Software providing device discovery, scanning, prioritization, and report generation of vulnerabilities.

Contains 1700+ server and file checks including hundreds of unicode and directory traversal vulnerability checks for IIS.

Scans Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 machines for P2P applications, remote-control applications, service packs, etc.

Offers online security testing and provides a list of privacy tools to help make internet travels safer.

Non-intrusive software tool which will review the security of Unix, OS400 and OpenVMS systems.

Tests for over 50 exploits. Licenses include full source code.

Network security and web-application scanner with prediction capabilities.

FusionVM from Critical Watch automates the process of proactively managing network vulnerabilities and exposures. It enables a unified corporate process that is enterprise-wide, repeatable and measureable.

Web server fingerprinting, directory and link extraction, Nikto and Google Hack DB scans.

Automated patch management and vulnerability assessment software for scanning, distributing and managing patches, security hotfixes and updates across heterogeneous networks comprising Windows, Red Hat and Debian Linux systems.

Scans for common security vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross site scripting and other web vulnerabilities.

Scan your PC for open ports ( Http, Https, Ftp, Dns, MySql, Imap, Smtp, Pop, Dc++, Irc).

Check open ports on vulnerabilities.

A security scanner which remotely tests computers or other devices and provides a report on their vulnerabilities.

A web scanner which checks for files and CGIs in non-standard directories.

IPv4 and IPv6 enabled scanner.

Tests are performed over the Web to Internet-connected systems.

Offer vulnerability and malware scanning software products for home and enterprise users.

Halberd discovers HTTP load balancers. May be useful for testing load balancer configurations and for web application auditing purposes.

Network administration toolset offering port and IP scanning, whois and DNS queries and OS fingerprinting. Freeware for Windows.

Wapiti acts like a fuzzer, injecting payloads to see if a script is vulnerable.

Scans for XSS(Cross site scripting) and SQL Injection.

SQL scanner capable of enumerating entire remote databases, and perform an active database fingerprinting.

A review of the Acunetix web vulnerability scanner.

A web application vulnerability assessment product.

A web-based interface for the Nessus vulnerability scanner and a backend queue manager for scan requests. Allows users to hierarchically manage networks of hosts, scanning policies, and automated scans.

Offers privacy software for disk management and registry cleaning, anti-spyware and spam filter. Downloads and online sales available.

Vulnerability assessment of internal networks or Intranets using an Automated Scanning Server.

Network scanning and auditing software which scans your network computers for vulnerabilities, exploits, and information enumerations.

Maui Security Scanner searches for the most common vulnerabilities on websites.

IPsonar maps and provides risk assessment to network assets.

Internet Scanner Tool. Performs scheduled and selective probes of communication services, operating systems, applications and routers to uncover and report systems vulnerabilities that might be open to attack.

Several security scanners, including a portscanner, a scanner for the Back Orifice, a scanner for Microsoft SQL Server "Slammer" Worm.

A vulnerability assessment tool for Windows NT and Windows 2000 Enables systems administrators to find and repair security vulnerabilities.

Web server fingerprinting and enumeration.

Network security and vulnerability scanner, password and product key recovery softwares.

A free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python.

Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Attacks,OS Attacks, Directory Traversal, cookie manipulation are tested. Claims not only to be able to find not only known vulnerabilities, but also potential new ones. CVE Compatible.

Am application designed to explore and to manage your network. Entire subnets can be scanned simultaneously without human intervention. OS detection, automatic network discovery, a port scanner, a Samba share browser, and the ability to save the network state.

Scans your ports and tells you which are open, closed, blocked etc.

Review of several vulnerability scanners.

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