Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application’s attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulne… http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/08/burp-suite-v1-4-12-in-the-wild-with-the-support-of-android-ssl-analysis/

WAppEx is an integrated platform for performing penetration testing and exploiting of web applications on Windows or Linux. It can automatically check for all type of security vulnerabilities in the given target and then let you to run various payloads to exploit and take advantages of the… http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/08/web-application-exploiter-wappex-v1-0/

BeEF is short for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser.Amid growing concerns about web-borne attacks against clients, including mobile clients, BeEF allows the professional penetration tester to assess the actual security post… http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/08/beef-the-browser-exploitation-framework-v0-4-3-7-released/

Blind SQL injection can be a pain to exploit. When the available tools work they work well, but when they don’t you have to write something custom. This is time-consuming and tedious. BBQSQL can help you address those issues. BBQSQL is a blind SQL injection framework written in Python. It is ex… http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/08/bbqsql-v1-0-0-the-blind-sql-injection-made-easy/

Bro is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. Key Features Adaptable Bro’s domain-specific scripting language enables site-specific monitoring policies. Efficient Bro targets high-performance networks and is used operationally at … http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/08/the-bro-network-security-monitor-v2-1-public-beta-available/

The Matriux is a phenomenon that was waiting to happen. It is a fully featured security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open source and free tools that can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network administ… http://www.toolswatch.org/2012/08/matriux-ec-centric-v2-49-beta-c0c0n-2012-released/