CYBER SECURITY : ACTIVE ATTACKS

An active attack involves probing the netwrok to discover individual hosts to confirm the information gathered in the passive attack phase.A lsit of tools i recently read are listed below for info.These are small but great tools for experimenting....m doing it on a VMware machine......

arphound

arping

bing

bugtraq

dig

dnstracer

dsniff

filesnarf

findsmb

fping

fragroute

fragtest

hackbot

hmap

hping

httping

hunt

libwhisker

mailsnarf

msgsnarf

nbtscan

nessus

netcat

nikto

nmap

pathchar

ping

scanssh

smbclient

smtpscan

tcpdump

tcpreplay

thcamap

traceroute

urlsnarf

xprobe2