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This is long but hopefully worth it. Here goes:Document!Document!Document!When applying for social security disability (SSDI):Find a supportive doctor or team of doctors who will keep good records in your chart notes. Get your records from your former physician ASAP. Your new doctor can, and should, request them. Then you keep a daily journal documenting your pain levels, what affected them, what you had to do to manage them and what kinds of symptoms you dealt with as a result of treating your pain. For example, if you take pain meds that make you sleepy and you have a hard time staying awake at work, write that down. If pain or meds cause you to be short-tempered or forgetful, write that down. If you have documentation that you have been reprimanded at work for forgetfulness or something due to pain or meds, include it. If you have to take frequent antibiotics because you are sick often, get a print out from your pharmacy. If you use all your sick leave and vacation and then start getting docked because you miss so much work, document it.If everything you experience seems to add up together or stack up and feel worse, write that down.Look online and find a copy of social security’s guidelines for what they look for when they look at your application. Use that as your guide to prove to them that you are sick. Try to find ways to document or offer proof of everything you say. The more successful you are at supporting your argument with proof, the more likely you are to win.Adult Listings (Part A)This is why it is helpful to have good quality doctors who know you and who keep really good records. Even little things count: did the calcification nodule in your right lung go from 3cms to 4cms? It might not be clinically significant but if you are trying to argue to that your condition is getting worse and you are finding it hrder to go to work each day, then it matters! Keep copies of reports of all your lab tests, MRIs, xrays, etc. if they did an MRI on your kidney and happened to also mention something about that painful place on your spine, keep it! It applies!When you fill your application out, ask Social Security Association (SSA) questions, if you have them. Worst case, they’ll be jerks and waste your time. Go to websites such as Social Security Disability. Secrets & Advice To Win Benefits. Apply & Appeal SSDI & SSI | Disability Secrets and see if they have ideas that can help you. When you get ready to turn in your application, if you have lots of additional paperwork to go with it, make it “idiotproof”:Number your pagesPut your name and social security number and “SSDI Application” on every pageDo as much on the computer as you can, so that it is easy to readAsk someone to read it for clarity and errorsMake sure you have followed all the directions on the applicationMake sure you have filled out their medical release of information form. Their directions tell you how and they provide it. They will request your records from everyone you tell them about. If you request your records, you have to pay for them ($$$!). They do not—let them request records unless there is some good reason why not (such as, you already have them and can copy them for free).If you have a lot of additional paperwork, put a title page at the beginning of each section and make a table of contents (remember, idiotproof).I also wrote out a section with the current name, address, phone, & FAX number of every hospital and provider mentioned in my application, even though they said they would find it (idiotproof).I did the same thing with my current meds: name, amount, how often, who prescribed, and current side-effects. The Social Security Administration (SSA) looks at the effects meds have on you, as well as the combined effect everything put together has on you.Make a photocopy of everything you submit to them, even if you have a copy of some of the paperwork somewhere else. I cannot stress this enough! Store the whole thing in a large envelope or file folder. I guarantee there are going to be times when they will send a form or someone will ask a question and you will need exactly what you submitted. Keep copies of anything you ever ever submit to them in any form. Put them in the same folder or start a second folder and store them together but keep everything!! This is also true for your lawyer, btw. Assume (s)he is an idiot, too, except on your side. Mostly.Assume you will win and be on SSDI forever. Congratulations. Be prepared to deal with the bureaucracy. Write down each phone call: date, time, who you talked to, summary. Keep in folder #2. Forever. Lawyer, too.Don’t forget to include the cumulative effect of your illness, lifestyle, meds, etc. People seem to discount this but SSA doesn’t. Let’s say you take 3 meds (let’s say, an antidepressant, a heart pill, and a narcotic pain pill) and all three make you tired and forgetful, plus the narcotic makes you itchy, so you have to take an antihistimine but can only take it at bedtime because otherwise you would be too sleepy to work or drive. Being tired and itchy makes you irritable. You have already cut back on your hours, you feel like you can’t get your work done, and you are sick & tired of feeling sick & tired. The whole situation has you feeling so depressed that you are having so much trouble going to work and having no other life except sleep, that you’ve decided to file for SSDI.Hopefully you have a therapist or psychiatrist, a cardiologist, a primary care doctor, and a pain specialist. Each of those people is a source of documentation. You can also ask your spouse to write a letter (…we never can go out or have intimate relations because my partner is so exhausted that their life has been reduced to work and sleep…the strain on our marriage no doubt contributes to their depression…). You can also write your own letter.All of the above was the approach I took when I filed for SSDI. I had been sick for awhile before I had to quit working, so I was able to accumulate a lot of proof. My doctors and I knew the time would come, but I had a job I loved and was determined to hang on as long as I could. By my teeth, if necessary. I went down kicking and screaming.Despite all my preparation (and the fact that I helped my clients apply for SSI as part of my job), I was still denied my first time thru. At least 80% are—the system sucks and if you want it, you’ll probably have to fight for it. The only person I know personally who is on SSDI and did not get denied with the first application, is a friend of mine who had a heart attack and was clinically dead before they brought her back. Pretty extreme and not recommended.Don’t despair. You get an appeal. It’s much better than being clinically dead! I expected to lose that, too, but I didn’t. I have been on SSDI for 2 years and have even managed to have my student loans discharged due to disability.If your appeal fails, it’s time to get a lawyer. If you don’t know one, you can ask the local bar association to give you some good names. You don’t pay the lawyer up front. They only get paid if they win and the amount they are allowed to take is regulated by law in many places. If you win, SSA will determine when you became disabled and award you back compensation. That’s kind of a racket because they decide and while you can appeal their decision, they also can choose to use your appeal to re-examine your entire case and decide to deny you, after all. If that sounds like a threat to you, well…I’m right there with you.If you don’t win, there is another appeal process that an attorney can work on with you. You can also continue to work while on SSDI—you are allowed to earn up to a certain amount every month. That info is online or SSA can give you more info.I warned you this was long but I hope I passed along some new knowledge. Good luck!

Yes, it was absolutely justified, and technically speaking there was no hacking involved. As the expert witness for Aaron's defense, Alex Stamos, underlines: let's not credulously accept the government's framing of Aaron's behavior.Paid-access to research articles is a burden for research. We need to make this knowledge available to anyone free of charge.Consider the following facts:The cost to access literature is a 8-figure number for a library of a large university (see annual journal subscription costs paid per university). This could fund many research projects. I have recently received an e-mail from one of the largest universities in France asking for researchers to reduce their use of the IEEE website as they charge the university for each article someone downloads.If research articles were free-access, citizens other than "professional researchers" could more easily contribute to research. (e.g. physicians, software engineers, activists, teenagers, hackers, etc.).Neither the authors nor the reviewers get any money. The only folks who get paid are the one who restrict the access to the article. Worse, most of the time authors have to transfer copyright!Some say paid access to research articles isn't an issue since researchers have access to everything from their lab. This is false: even at MIT where I am currently located, I don't have free access to many research articles, which subsequently reduce my productivity. I even dropped one of my personal projects because of that. I am obviously not the only one in this situation and I often got requests from friends asking for articles to which they don't have access from their lab.Many of the articles Aaron downloaded where in the public domain, but only accessible through paywall.More details at:To what extent does paid access to research articles slow down research?What are the biggest things that are slowing down scientific research?A nice explanation of the current academic publishing system taken from another JSTOR mass-downloader: Papers from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society on The Pirate Bay:This archive contains 18,592 scientific publications totaling 33GiB, all from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and which should be available to everyone at no cost, but most have previously only been made available at high prices through paywall gatekeepers like JSTOR.Limited access to the documents here is typically sold for $19USD per article, though some of the older ones are available as cheaply as $8. Purchasing access to this collection one article at a time would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.On July 19th 2011, Aaron Swartz was criminally charged by the US Attorney General's office for, effectively, downloading too many academic papers from JSTOR.Academic publishing is an odd system. The authors are not paid for their writing, nor are the peer reviewers (they're just more unpaid academics), and in some fields even the journal editors are unpaid. Sometimes the authors must even pay the publishers.And yet scientific publications are some of the most outrageously expensive pieces of literature you can buy. In the past, the high access fees supported the costly mechanical reproduction of niche paper journals, but online distribution has mostly made this function obsolete. As far as I can tell, the money paid for access today serves little significant purpose except to perpetuate dead business models.The "publish or perish" pressure in academia gives the authors an impossibly weak negotiating position, and the existing system has enormous inertia. Those with the most power to change the system--the long-tenured luminary scholars whose works give legitimacy and prestige to the journals, rather than the other way around--are the least impacted by its failures. They are supported by institutions who invisibly provide access to all of the resources they need. And as the journals depend on them, they may ask for alterations to the standard contract without risking their career on the loss of a publication offer. Many don't even realize the extent to which academic work is inaccessible to the general public, nor do they realize what sort of work is being done outside universities that would benefit by it.Large publishers are now able to purchase the political clout needed to abuse the narrow commercial scope of copyright protection, extending it to completely inapplicable areas: slavish reproductions of historic documents and art, for example, and exploiting the labors of unpaid scientists. They're even able to make the taxpayers pay for their attacks on free society by pursuing criminal prosecution (copyright has classically been a civil matter) and by burdening public institutions with outrageous subscription fees.Copyright is a legal fiction representing a narrow compromise: we give up some of our natural right to exchange information in exchange for creating an economic incentive to author, so that we may all enjoy more works. When publishers abuse the system to prop up their existence, when they misrepresent the extent of copyright coverage, when they use threats of frivolous litigation to suppress the dissemination of publicly owned works, they are stealing from everyone else.Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (written by Aaron in 2008)Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?Aaron SwartzJuly 2008, Eremo, ItalyText of Remarks by Carl Malamud at Memorial for Aaron Swartz at theInternet Archive on January 24, 2013):## Aaron's ArmyDo not think for a moment that Aaron's work on JSTOR was the randomact of a lone hacker, some kind of crazy, spur-of-the-moment bulkdownload.JSTOR had long come in for withering criticism from the net. LarryLessig called JSTOR a moral outrage in a talk and I suppose I have toconfess he was quoting me. We weren't the only ones fanning thoseflames.Sequestering knowledge behind pay walls--making scientific journalsonly available to a few kids fortunate enough to be at fancyuniversities and charging $20 an article for the remaining 99% ofus--was a festering wound. It offended many people.It embarrassed many who wrote those articles that their work hadbecome somebody's profit margin, a members-only country club ofknowledge.Many of us helped fan those flames. Many of us feel guilty today forfanning those flames.But JSTOR was just one of many battles. They tried to paint Aaron assome kind of lone-wolf hacker, a young terrorist who went on a crazyIP killing spree that caused $92 million in damages.Aaron wasn't a lone wolf, he was part of an army, and I had the honorof serving with him for a decade. You have heard many things about hisremarkable life, but I want to focus tonight on just one.Aaron was part of an army of citizens that believes democracy onlyworks when the citizenry are informed, when we know about ourrights--and our obligations. An army that believes we must makejustice and knowledge available to all--not just the well born orthose that have grabbed the reigns of power--so that we may governourselves more wisely.He was part of an army of citizens that rejects kings and generals andbelieves in rough consensus and running code.We worked together on a dozen government databases. When we worked onsomething, the decisions weren't rash. Our work often took months,sometimes years, sometimes a decade, and Aaron Swartz did not get hisproper serving of decades.We looked at and poked at the U.S. Copyright database for a long time,a system so old it was still running WAIS. The government had--believeit or not--asserted copyright on the copyright database. How youcopyright a database that is specifically called out in theU.S. Constitution is beyond me, but we knew we were playing with fireby violating their terms of use, so we were careful.We grabbed that data and it was used to feed the Open Library here atthe Internet Archive and it was used to feed Google Books. And, we gota letter from the Copyright Office waiving copyright on that copyrightdatabase. But before we did that, we had to talk to many lawyers andworry about the government hauling us in for malicious premeditatedbulk downloading.These were not random acts of aggression. We worked on databases tomake them better, to make our democracy work better, to help ourgovernment. We were not criminals.When we brought in 20 million pages of U.S. District Court documentsfrom behind their 8 cent-per-page PACER pay wall, we found thesepublic filings infested with privacy violations: names of minorchildren, names of informants, medical records, mental health records,financial records, tens of thousands of social security numbers.We were whistle blowers[1] and we sent our results to the Chief Judgesof 31 District Courts and those judges were shocked and dismayed andthey redacted those documents and they yelled at the lawyers thatfiled them and the Judicial Conference changed their privacy rules.But you know what the bureaucrats who ran the Administrative Office ofthe United States Courts did? To them, we weren't citizens that madepublic data better, we were thieves that took $1.6 million of theirproperty.So they called the FBI, they said they were hacked by criminals, anorganized gang that was imperiling their $120 million per year revenuestream selling public government documents.The FBI sat outside Aaron's house. They called him up[2] and tried tosucker him into meeting them without his lawyer. The FBI sat two armedagents[3] down in an interrogation room with me to get to the bottomof this alleged conspiracy.But we weren't criminals, we were only citizens.We did nothing wrong. They found nothing wrong. We did our duty ascitizens and the government investigation had nothing to show for itbut a waste of a whole lot of time and money.If you want a chilling effect, sit somebody down with a coupleoverreaching federal agents for a while and see how quickly theirblood runs cold.There are people who face danger every day to protect us--policeofficers and firefighters and emergency workers--and I am grateful andamazed by what they do. But the work that people like Aaron and I did,slinging DVDs and running shell scripts on public materials, shouldnot be a dangerous profession.We weren't criminals, but there were crimes committed, crimes againstthe very idea of justice.When the U.S. Attorney told Aaron he had to plead guilty to 13felonies for attempting to propagate knowledge before she'd evenconsider a deal, that was an abuse of power, a misuse of the criminaljustice system, a crime against justice.And that U.S. Attorney does not act alone. She is part of a posseintent on protecting property not people. All over the United States,those without access to means don't have access to justice and facethese abuses of power every day.It was a crime against learning when a nonprofit corporation likeJSTOR, charged with advancing knowledge, turned a download that causedno harm and no damage into a $92 million federal case.And the JSTOR corporate monopoly on knowledge is not alone. All overthe United States, corporations have staked their fences on the fieldsof education: for-profit colleges that steal from our veterans,nonprofit standards bodies that ration public safety codes whilepaying million dollar salaries, and multinational conglomerates thatmeasure the worth of scientific papers and legal materials by theirgross margins.In the JSTOR case, was the overly aggressive posture of the Departmentof Justice prosecutors and law enforcement officials revenge becausethey were embarrassed that--in their view at least--we somehow gotaway with something in the PACER incident? Was the merciless JSTORprosecution the revenge of embarrassed bureaucrats because they lookedstupid in the New York Times, because the U.S. Senate called them onthe carpet?We will probably never know the answer to that question, but it surelooks like they destroyed a young man's life in a petty abuse ofpower. This was not a criminal matter, Aaron was not a criminal.If you think you own something and I think that thing is public, I'mmore than happy to meet you in a court of law and--if you'reright--I'll take my lumps if I've wronged you. But when we turn armedagents of the law on citizens trying to increase access to knowledge,we have broken the rule of law, we have desecrated the temple ofjustice.Aaron Swartz was not a criminal, he was a citizen, and he was a bravesoldier in a war which continues today, a war in which corrupt andvenal profiteers try to steal and hoard and starve our public domainfor their own private gain.When people try to restrict access to the law, or they try to collecttolls on the road to knowledge, or deny education to those withoutmeans, those people are the ones who should face the stern gaze of anoutraged public prosecutor.What the Department of Justice put Aaron through for trying to makeour world better is the same thing they can put you through. Our armyisn't one lone wolf, it is thousands of citizens--many of you in thisroom--who are fighting for justice and knowledge.I say we are an army, and I use the word with cause because we facepeople who want to imprison us for downloading a database to take acloser look, we face people who believe they can tell us what we canread and what we can say.But when I see our army, I see an army that creates instead ofdestroys. I see the army of Mahatma Gandhi walking peacefully to thesea to make salt for the people. I see the army of Martin Luther Kingwalking peacefully but with determination to Washington to demandtheir rights because change does not roll in on the wheels ofinevitability, it comes through continuous struggle.When I see our army, I see an army that creates new opportunities forthe poor, an army that makes our society more just and more fair, anarmy that makes knowledge universal.When I see our army, I see the people who have created the Wikipediaand the Internet Archive, people who coded GNU and Apache and BIND andLINUX. I see the people who made the EFF and the Creative Commons. Isee the people who created our Internet as a gift to the world.When I see our army, I see Aaron Swartz and my heart is broken. Wehave truly lost one of our better angels.I wish we could change the past, but we cannot. But, we can change thefuture, and we must.We must do so for Aaron, we must do so for ourselves, we must do so tomake our world a better place, a more humane place, a place wherejustice works and access to knowledge is a human right.## Footnotes[1]: <https://public.resource.org/uscourts.gov/>[2]: <https://public.resource.org/aaron/pub/msg00693.html>[3]: <https://public.resource.org/aaron/pub/msg00707.html>Related: Posthumously pardon Aaron Swartz.

Penetration testing, often called “pentesting”,“pen testing”, "network penetration testing" or “security testing”, is the practice of attacking your own or your clients’ IT systems in the same way a hacker would to identify security holes. Of course, you do this without actually harming the network. The person carrying out a penetration test is called a penetration tester or pentester.Penetration testing typically includes network penetration testing and application security testing as well as controls and processes around the networks and applications, and should occur from both outside the network trying to come in (external testing) and from inside the network.Two common penetration testing tools are static analysis tools and dynamic analysis tools.Veracode performs both dynamic and static code analysis and finds security vulnerabilities that include malicious code as well as the absence of functionality that may lead to security breaches.Let’s me make one thing clear: Penetration testing requires that you get permission from the person who owns the system. Otherwise, you would be hacking the system, which is illegal in most countries.In other words: The difference between penetration testing and hacking is whether you have the system owner’s permission. If you want to do a network penetration test on someone else's system, we highly recommend that you get written permission. In this case, asking first is definitely better than apologizing later!You can become a penetration tester at home by testing your own server and later make a career out of it.Top 20 Penetration Testing Tools1) MetasploitThis is the most advanced and popular Framework that can be used to for pen-testing. It is based on the concept of ‘exploit’ which is a code that can surpass the security measures and enter a certain system. If entered, it runs a ‘payload’, a code that performs operations on a target machine, thus creating the perfect framework for penetration testing.It can be used on web applications, networks, servers etc. It has a command-line and a GUI clickable interface, works on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. This is a commercial product, although there might be free limited trials available.Download link: Metasploit Download2) WiresharkThis is basically a network protocol analyzer –popular for providing the minutest details about your network protocols, packet information, decryption etc. It can be used on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many other systems. The information that is retrieved via this tool can be viewed through a GUI, or the TTY-mode TShark utility. You can get your own free version of the tool from here.Download link: Wireshark download3) w3afW3afis a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework.Some of the features are: fast HTTP requests, integration of web and proxy servers into the code, injecting payloads into various kinds of HTTP requests etc.It has a command-line interface, works on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.All versions are free of charge to download.Download link: w3af download4) CORE ImpactCORE Impact Pro can be used to test mobile device penetration, network/network devise penetration, password identification and cracking, etc. It has a command-line and a GUI clickable interface, works Microsoft Windows. This is one of the expensive tools in this line and all the information can be found at below page.Download link: CORE Impact download5) Back TrackBack Track works only on Linux Machines. The new version is called Kali Linux. This is one of the best tools available for Packet sniffing and injecting. An expertise in TCP/IP protocol and networking are key to succeed using this tool. For information and to download a free copy, visit below page.Download link: Back Track download6) NetsparkerNetsparker comes with a robust web application scanner that will identify vulnerabilities, suggest remedial action etc. This tool can also help exploit SQL injection and LFI (local file induction). It has a command-line and GUI interface, works only on Microsoft Windows. This is a commercial product, although there might be free limited trials available at below page.Download link: Netsparker download7) NessusNessus also is a scanner and one that needs to be watched out for. It is one of the most robust vulnerability identifier tools available. It specializes in compliance checks, Sensitive data searches, IPs scan, website scanning etc. and aids in finding the ‘weak-spots’. It works on most of the environments.Download link: Nessus download8) BurpsuiteBurp suite is also essentially a scanner (with a limited “intruder” tool for attacks), although many security testing specialists swear that pen-testing without this tool is unimaginable. The tool is not free, but very cost effective. Take a look at it on below download page. It mainly works wonders with intercepting proxy, crawling content and functionality, web application scanning etc. You can use this on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux environments.Download link: Burp suite download9) Cain & AbelIf cracking encrypted passwords or network keys is what you need, then Cain& Abel is the tool for you. It uses network sniffing, Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, cache uncovering and routing protocol analysis methods to achieve this. Check out information about this free to use tool at below page. This is exclusively for Microsoft operating systems.Download link: Cain & Abel download10) Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)ZAP is a completely free to use, scanner and security vulnerability finder for web applications. ZAP includes Proxy intercepting aspects, variety of scanners, spiders etc. It works on most platforms and the more information can be obtained from below page.Download link: ZAP download11) AcunetixAcunetix is essentially a web vulnerability scanner targeted at web applications. It provides SQL injection, cross site scripting testing, PCI compliance reports etc. along with identifying a multitude of vulnerabilities. While this is among the more ‘pricey’ tools, a limited time free trial version can be obtained at below page.Download link: Acunetix download12) John The RipperAnother password cracker in line is, John the Ripper. This tool works on most of the environments, although it’s primarily for UNIX systems. It is considered one of the fastest tools in this genre. 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Platform: Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows are supported platforms. All versions of this tool are free for download.Download link: Sqlmap download15) CanvasImmunity’s CANVAS is a widely used tool that contains more than 400 exploits and multiple payload options. It renders itself useful for web applications, wireless systems, networks etc. It has a command-line and GUI interface, works on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It is not free of charge and can more information can be found at below page.Download link: Canvas download16) Social Engineer ToolkitThe Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is a unique tool in terms that the attacks are targeted at the human element than on the system element. It has features that let you send emails, java applets, etc containing the attack code. It goes without saying that this tool is to be used very carefully and only for ‘white-hat’ reasons. It has a command-line interface, works on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It is open source and can be found at below page.Download link: SET download17) SqlninjaSqlninja, as the name indicates is all about taking over the DB server using SQL injection in any environment. This product by itself claims to be not so stable its popularity indicates how robust it is already with the DB related vulnerability exploitation. It has a command-line interface, works on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and not on Microsoft Windows. It is open source and can be found at this page.Download link: Sqlninja download18) Nmap“Network Mapper” though not necessarily a pen-testing tool, it is a must-have for the ethical hackers. This is a very popular tool that predominantly aids in understanding the characteristics of any target network. The characteristics can include: host, services, OS, packet filters/firewalls etc. It works on most of the environments and is open sourced.Download link: Nmap download19) BeEFBeEF is short for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser- what this means is that, it takes advantage of the fact that an open web-browser is the window(or crack) into a target system and designs its attacks to go on from this point on . It has a GUI interface, works on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It is open source and can be found at this page.Download link: BeEF download20) DradisDradis is an open source framework (a web application) that helps with maintaining the information that can be shared among the participants of a pen-test. The information collected helps understand what is done and what needs to be done. It achieves this purpose by the means of plugins to read and collect data from network scanning tools, like Nmap, w3af, Nessus, Burp Suite, Nikto and many more. It has a GUI interface, works on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It is open source and can be found at this page.Download link: Dradis download**************The above is a huge list of many tools but that is not all. There are many more Pen test tools that are gaining momentum in the recent times. They are:21) Ettercap: A network and host analysis tool that provides sniffing and protocol dissection among other things. More info here.22) Hydra: A password cracker – more details here.23) Veracode: Works with the code development process to ensure security and minimize vulnerabilities at the source level. Check here.24) SATAN: It stands for: Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks. This tool is used on network hosts for collecting and reporting security/vulnerability related statistics. Download here.25) SHODAN: It is a search engine that lets you search for computers/devices on the internet based on various parameters like city, country hostname, OS etc. Using the Shodan Exploits you can search for known vulnerabilities and exploits. Download here.26) Aircrack-ng: Captures data packets and uses the same for recovery of 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys. Download here.27) Arachni: A Ruby framework that helps in analyzing web application security. It performs a meta analysis on the HTTP responses it receives during an audit process and presents various insights into how secure the application is. Download here.28) PunkSPIDER(scanner powered by PunkSCAN): Security scanners and what is unique is that this tool performs a range of multiple scans at once on web applications thus surpassing the existing tools in the market. You can download the source code directly from Bitbucket at this page.29) IBM AppScan: As the name indicates this is a scanner that identifies problem areas and suggests remedial actions. Download here.30) Nagios: This is software when used will monitor the entire environment including servers, applications, network – the entire infrastructure and alert when a potential problem is detected. Download here.31) Nikto: A scanner that caters to web servers specially to detect outdated software configurations, invalid data and/or CGIs etc. Download here.32) WebScarabNG: This tool use the http/https requests between the browser and the server to understand, capture and sometimes modify the parameters that are part of the communication between the two parties. Download here.33) Maltego: This is a unique tool that focuses on showing/highlighting the relationships between people, sites, infrastructure etc. in order to identify inconsistent/incorrect connections. Download here.34) IronWASP: A customizable scanner creator for web applications using python/ruby scripting. Download here.35) HconSTF: Using this tool you can create your own web exploits, decoys that you can use to exploit vulnerabilities in the areas of passwords, databases, network etc. Download here.36) OpenVAS: Stands for open vulnerabilities assessment system. Well, the name says it all. For more info, check here.37) Secunia PSI: It is a personal software inspector that will keep your system secure when installed. Try it here.References: 37 Powerful Penetration Testing Tools For Every Penetration Tester