Acunetix Alternatives for Linux

Zed Attack Proxy

The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.

• OWASP ZAP is more of a web application pentesting tool but acunetix is a networking scanning tools Guest • Sep 2019 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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Burp Suite

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 vulnerabilities.

• Burp Suite is for forced browsing whereas acunetix is finding vulnerabilities. Guest • Aug 2019 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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Nessus

The Nessus vulnerability scanner is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs and across physically separate networks.

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OpenVAS

The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

Free Open Source Linux

Nikto

Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1000 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers.

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w3af

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework

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skipfish

A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. Key features: High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets. Ease of use: heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion.

• Discontinued Skipfish is no longer maintained. Last version, 2.10 beta, released in December 2012, can be still downloaded from Google Code Archive

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Armitage

Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but don't use Metasploit every day. If you want to learn Metasploit and grow into the advanced features, Armitage can help you.

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Virusdie

Clean and protect your websites like a security expert easy and fast. Virusdie helps you clean your websites from malware automatically. Shows malicious code in files. Protects your websites from online threats and XSS/SQL injections. Mitigate DoS attacks and suspicious activities on your websites. Just put a Sync File on your website to sync it to Virusdie. No installation required!

Commercial Linux Web

Arachni

Arachni is an Open Source, feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

wapiti

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. Wapiti is a command line tool.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Websecurify

Websecurify is a powerful web application security testing environment designed from the ground up to provide the best combination of automatic and manual vulnerability testing technologies.

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Shield Security

8x strong firewall rulesets Customized firewall responses Administrator and per-page firewall whitelist Super/security administrator Restrict administrator access to plugins, themes, pages/posts, other users User sessions management Administrator login notification emails Restrict to IP address / limit concurrent sessions Fully automatic IP address black list system IP white list options Login brute force protection Google ReCAPTCHA login protection Enforced login cool down User...

• This is a preventative security tool, not a vulnerability scanner or penetration testing. Guest • Sep 2019 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Windows Linux Web iControlWP Wordpress

CWIS website antivirus

The CobWeb Internal Scanner (CWIS, pronounced see-wis) is a lightweight antivirus scanner application. The scanner designed to detect adware and malware, backdoors and exploits, phishing code, trojans and viruses, CMS and server vulnerabilities and other threats within database content and files uploaded to your system.

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SecApps

Find security vulnerabilities right from your browser. Experience the next generation security tools without the need to install any additional software.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

Tamper Data

Firefox add-on that lets you change headers and request parameters before they're sent to the server. Unlike proxy request modifiers, it's integrated into the browser, so it has no problem with HTTPS connections, client authentication certificates, or other features that the browser supports.

• Discontinued The extension is no longer developed since 2010 and it's not compatible with Firefox 57 and later. It still works on XUL-based Firefox forks like https://alternativeto.net/software/waterfox/ and https://alternativeto.net/software/palemoon/

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PatrolServer

Check realtime and continuously for outdated web software on your server. Delivered by mail and an easy to use dashboard and get notified if PHP, Apache, cPanel, Wordpress, Drupal and many more become outdated.

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Report Attacks

This plugin improve login security, create a blacklist of IP addresses and reports brute force login attempts attacks. Report not whitelisted IP address attacks to the respective abuse departments of the infected PCs/servers, through free services of blocklist, to ensure that the responsible provider can inform their customer about the infection and disable the attacker.

• This is an alerting/reporting tool; not a vulnerability scanner. Guest • Sep 2019 Disagree   Agree

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