A post to track the tools that I find useful or recommended by friends to protect my network from intrusion. PSAD – “psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons that run on Linux machines and analyze iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic ~psad website“. I get to block IPs that are trying to scan the network for holes. Recommended by friends Sagan – “Sagan is a multi-threaded, real time system and event log

On my ubuntu (10.04 LTS) powered laptop, I am using firestarter as a GUI for my firewall. It is very easy to use and very easy to configure. Though its synonymous to the default firewall installed with later versions of ubuntu which is the “GUFW (Firewall Configuration)” which allows the user to configure ufw firewall and is already integrated with gnome. Since firestarter is not integrated with gnome and it has been a repetitive task for me that every time

Super Antispyware is one of the utility tools I use for our XP computers at home. From time to time I use this machines for blogging and accessing our cloud servers. I enjoyed using this tool because I use it for free and it’s quite reliable when it comes to checking of spyware. Evilgrade, is a hacking tool that is used for Man In The Middle (MITM) attacks. To prevent the machines at home from being exploited I checked where