Security Tools on Mac OS X (Leopard)

by Dan Strom on March 5, 2009

I’m in the process of setting up a seldom-used PowerBook G4 to use as my “Security Tools” notebook. It is running 10.5.6 with the xcode tools installed.

Now, the software that I’ve installed so far for InfoSec purposes…

  • MacPorts – This is “a system for compiling, installing, and manaaging open source software” on mac. Yep, the purpose for this is to make the installation easier for several tools. I know that I could go through the manual compile, but if MacPorts can make it easier, why not use it?
  • nmap v4.76 via MacPorts – Ok, so a pre-compiled binary is available from insecure.org, but I wanted to use a known tool for my first MacPorts install. Nmap is a very powerful network scanning tool.
  • KisMAC – This is a passive wireless scanner in the vein of NetStumbler.
  • Wireshark – A open source protocol analyzer

More tools will be added later.

Oh yeah, I probably have not put your favorite tool on the notebook. Let me know what you are using.

- Dan

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