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w3af (Web Application Attack and Audit Framework) is an open-source web application security scanner. The project provides a vulnerability scanner and exploitation tool for Web applications. [ 2 ] It provides information about security vulnerabilities for use in penetration testing engagements.
Nikto is a free software command-line vulnerability scanner that scans web servers for dangerous files or CGIs, outdated server software and other problems. It performs generic and server type specific checks. It also captures and prints any cookies received.
Simon Bennetts, the project lead, stated in 2014 that only 20% of ZAP's source code was still from Paros. [3] The first release was announced on Bugtraq in September 2010, and became an OWASP project a few months later. [4] [5] In 2023, ZAP developers moved to the Linux Foundation, where they became a part of the Software Security Project.
Commercial scanners are a category of web-assessment tools which need to be purchased. Some scanners include some free features but most need to be bought for full access to the tool's power. Open-source scanners are often free of cost to the user.
OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner, originally known as GNessUs) is the scanner component of Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM), a software framework of several services and tools offering vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management.
In 1998 Renaud Deraison created The Nessus Project as a free remote security scanner. [2] On October 5 2005, with the release of Nessus 3, the project changed from the GNU General Public License to a proprietary license.
Burp Suite is a proprietary software tool for security assessment and penetration testing of web applications. [2] [3] It was initially developed in 2003-2006 by Dafydd Stuttard [4] to automate his own security testing needs, after realizing the capabilities of automatable web tools like Selenium. [5]
ClamAV (antivirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses.It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku.