Turning Firefox to an Ethical Hacking Platform.

The security testers community has a large panel of security tools, methodologies and much more to perform their pentests and audit assessments. But what happens if you find yourself weaponless.

No more Top 100 security tools, no more LiveCDs and no more exploitation frameworks. A security auditor without toolbox is like a cop without gun.
Nevertherless, there is maybe a way to rescue yourself from this nightmare situation.

The magical solution could be Firefox and its extensions developed by ethical hackers and coders.

This article comes as an update for what we posted previously about how to switch your firefox to more than an usual simple browser. It was about application auditing

Here is an updated list of useful security auditing extensions :

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Also: Firefox: 300 million+ downloads.