Vulnerability scanner, Information security software, operative systems

Nmap

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. [...]

Nikto Web Vulnerability Scanner

Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6700 potentially dangerous files/programs, checks for outdated versions of over 1250 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers. It also checks for server configuration items... [...]

Acunetix WVS

Acunetix are the pioneers in automated web application security testing with innovative technologies [...]

W3AF - Web Application Attack and Audit Framework

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project’s goal is to create a framework to help you secure your web applications by finding and exploiting all web application vulnerabilities. [...]

Netsparker

Netsparker Desktop is available as a Windows application and is an easy-to-use web application security scanner that uses the advanced Proof-Based vulnerability scanning technology and has built-in penetration testing and reporting tools. [...]

OWASP Zed

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by hundreds of international volunteers. [...]

THC Amap

Application Specific Scanner. Amap was the first next-generation scanning tool for pentesters. It attempts to identify applications even if they are running on a different port than normal. [...]

Cyber Security Tools