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• February 2012 - Splunk App: Windows Security Operation Center
• January 2012 - ZeroAccess analysis with OSForensics
  
• December 2011 - Registry Decoder
  
• November 2011 - OWASP ZAP - Zed Attack Proxy
  
• October 2011 - Log Analysis withHighlighter
• September 2011 - Memory Analysis with DumpIt and Volatility
• August 2011 - PacketFence - Open Source Network Access Control
• July 2011- RIPS: Static source code analyzer for PHP vulnerabilities
• June 2011 - Xplico
• May 2011 - Security Onion
• April 2011 - OpenVAS-4
  
• March 2011 - OSINT with FOCA 2.6
  
• February 2011 - El Jefe 1.1: The Boss Will See You Now
• January 2011 - Armitage: Cyber Attack Management for Metasploit
  
• December 2010 - SamuraiWTF: The Life Cycle of a Web Application Vulnerability Analysis
• November 2010- Confessor & MOLE
  
• October 2010 - The NirSoft Collection
  
• September 2010 - REMnux
  
• August 2010 - Suricata: An Introduction
• July 2010 - NetWitness Investigator
  
• June 2010 - Web Security Tools²: skipfish and iScanner
• May 2010 - SIFT Workstation 2.0: SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit
  
• April 2010 - Dradis: Effective Information Sharing for Pentest Teams
• March 2010 - NetGrok and AfterGlow: Visualizing the Zeus attack against government and military
  
• February 2010 - Firefox Addons for Security Practitioners
  
• January 2010 - Single Packet Authorization: The Ghost in the Machine
  
• December 2009 - Maltego: Transform & Correlate * 2009 Toolsmith Tool of theYear *
  
• November 2009 - Fiddler with Watcher: Passive security auditor
  
• October 2009 - OSSEC
  
• September 2009 - OffVis 1.0 Beta: Office visualization tool
  
• August 2009 - AIRT: Application for Incident Response Teams
  
• July 2009 - Malzilla: Exploring scareware and drive-by malware
  
• June 2009 - MIR-ROR: Motile Incident Response - Respond Objectively, Remediate  
• May 2009 - SUMO Linux: Security utilizing multiple options
  
• April 2009 - Tamper Data: CSRF examined
  
• March 2009 - Adito: Open-source,browser-based SSL VPN
• February 2009 - Mandiant Memoryze with Audit Viewer * 2008 Toolsmith Tool of the Year *
  
• January 2009 - Part 2 of 2: The Integrity Project - WebJob
  
• December 2008 - Part 1 of 2: The Integrity Project - FTimes
  
• November 2008 - Bipartisan server politi...er, security
  
• October 2008 - fwsnort-1.0.5: iptables intrusion detection
  
• September 2008 - PTA: Practical Threat Analysis
• August 2008 - NetworkMiner: Network Forensic Analysis Tool
• July 2008 - PHPIDS: Attack my website, please!
  
• June 2008 - Security Visualization: What You Don't See Can Hurt You
• May 2008 - MojoPac: Get Your Mojo Working
• April 2008 - The XSS Epidemic: Tools for discovery and remediation
  
• March 2008 - WinPatrol
• February 2008 - Packet Analysis with the Hex System
• January 2008 - Gpg4win: Email Security using GnuPG for Windows
• December 2007 - Mandiant Red Curtain: Malware identification for incident responders
  
• November 2007 - Argus: Auditing network activity
  
• October 2007 - Security Officers Management & Analysis Project (SOMAP)
  
• September 2007 - SensePost: Wikto, Scully, and CrowBar
• August 2007 - CIS Benchmarks
• July 2007 - Malcode Analysis Software Tools
• June 2007 - Search Engine Security Auditing
• May 2007 - Core Impact 6.2: Anatomy of an ethical penetration test
• April 2007 - Nessj: Application/network security scanner client
• March 2007: Managing Badware and Policy Violation with Aanval and Bleeding Edge Threat Snort Rules
• February 2007 - RAPIER v. 3.1
• January 2007 - Activeworx IDS Policy Manager 2.0: Rules management for multiple sensors
• December 2006 - Web Application Security Testing 101: Paros Proxy and Badstore
• November 2006 - Security Analysis with Wireshark