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Top Open Source Security Tools

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It has more than 70 extensions, and a knowledge base with more than 14 million open source components. John the Ripper is the tool most used to check out password vulnerability. It combines several approaches to password cracking into one package. archives (ZIP, RAR, 7z), and document files (PDF, Microsoft Office, etc.).

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

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The category usually matches the typical phases of a pentest, like “information gathering” or “post-exploitation,” but also recurrent tasks, such as “password attacks.” Be careful when downloading the archive, though, as Parrot provides a “home edition” that is not meant for pentesting.