CoovaAP is an OpenWRT-based firmware designed especially for HotSpots. It comes with the CoovaChilli access controller built-in and makes it easily configurable. CoovaAP is perfect for just about any HotSpot application – from WPA Enterprise (with RADIUS accounting) to Free WiFi with Terms of Service acknowledgment to commercial HotSpot captive portal applications. Use the embedded captive portal for a simple self contained HotSpot or use your own captive portal and RADIUS back-end.
Category: Security
PacketProtector – Turn your Router into a Universal Threat Management Device (UTM)
PacketProtector is a Linux distribution for wireless routers, built on top of OpenWrt. The goal of this project is to transform the router into a unified threat management (UTM) device.
All you need is a Linksys WRTSL54GS or ASUS WL-500g (Deluxe or Premium) router, and a USB 2.0 drive with atleast 100MB free space.
FireKeeper – An Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox
Firekeeper is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Firefox. It is able to detect, block and warn the user about malicious sites.
Firecat 1.2 – Firefox Catalog of Audit Extensions
Most of us would have thought of and used Firefox only as a browser. But, do you know it can well act as a Security application? That is all about FireCAT.
FireCAT is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. It now has 60 extensions.
Shields Up! – Internet Vulnerability Profiling
Shields Up! is a free online Internet Vulnerability Profiling tool on the http://www.grc.com/ website.
Nipper – Network device Security Audit tool
Nipper is an Opensource tool for network device congiguration and security audit. Nipper performs security audits of network device configuration files. The report produced by Nipper includes; detailed security-related issues with recommendations, a configuration report and various appendices. (more…)