OWASP Mantra Security Framework Screenshot under Windows 7 environment |
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| Slogan | "Hack3r's browser" |
| Developer(s) | Team Mantra |
| Initial release | 5 December 2010 |
| Stable release |
0.81 code named Armada / 30 December 2011 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Engine | Gecko |
| Size | 44.4 MB – Windows[1] 77.7 MB – Mac OS X[1] 56.7 MB – GNU/Linux (i686)[1] 57.3 MB – GNU/Linux (x86_64)[1] 64.7 MB – source code[1] |
| Development status | Active |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | www.getmantra.com |
Mantra is a free and open source security toolkit with a collection of hacking tools, add-ons and scripts based on Firefox[2] intended for penetration testers[3], web application developers and security professionals etc.
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The intention behind developing Mantra was to provide security professionals a platform for manual web application penetration testing environment by utilizing the power of open source software specially the lesser known add-ons by using day to day updated large number of exploit that don't use to be easy to include in any automated vulnerability scanner.
Mantra is cross platform and flexible allows freedom to be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux or in Macintosh.
Seeing the significance for such a toolkit for penetration testing and vulnerability assessment, Abhi M Balakrishnan initialised the project in October 2010 with Gokul C Gopinath.It became listed as an OWASP project in March 2011[4] and included in BackTrack 5 Linux security distribution in May 2011 soon after its first public beta 0.52[5] ClubHack release in December 2010.[6] On 15 June 2011 FireCat[7] officially integrated with Mantra.[8][9] Matriux Krypton released it as part of their Arsenal on 15 August 2011.
Team Mantra have released a pre-alpha version of MoC [10][11][12] that is based on Google Chrome on the 2nd day of September 2011
OWASP Mantra Security Toolkit have tools under following categories, complete list is here
+ Information Gathering
+ Editors
+ Network Utilities
+ Miscellaneous
+ Application Auditing
+ Proxy
Abhi M Balakrishnan - Project Leader
Gokul C Gopinath - Team Leader
Yashartha Chaturvedi - Project Manager
Gopu C Gopinath - Design Head
Thomas Mackenzie - Contributor and Tester
Maximiliano Soler - Translator and Tester
BackTrack 5
Matriux OS
ClubHack 2010
ClubHack Magazine
Download OWASP Mantra Security Framework
Mantra official page
Mantra at Sourceforge.net
Mantra at Google Code
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