Friday, November 28, 2008

Maltego - Forensics and Intelligence Application & Information Gathering Tool

Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way.

Coupled with its graphing libraries, Maltego, allows you to identify key relationships between information and identify previously unknown relationships between them. It is a must-have tool in the forensics, security and intelligence fields!

Maltego offers the user with unprecedented information. Information is leverage.

What does Maltego do?

Maltego is a program that can be used to determine the relationships and real world links between:

* People
* Groups of people (social networks)
* Companies
* Organizations
* Web sites
* Internet infrastructure such as: Domains, DNS Names, Netblocks and IP Addresses
* Phrases
* Affiliations
* Documents and files

These entities are linked using open source intelligence.

* Maltego is easy and quick to install - it uses Java, so it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
* Maltego provides you with a graphical interface that makes seeing these relationships instant and accurate - making it possible to see hidden connections.
* Using the graphical user interface (GUI) you can see relationships easily - even if they are three or four degrees of separation away.
* Maltego is unique because it uses a powerful, flexible framework that makes customizing possible. As such, Maltego can be adapted to your own, unique requirements.

Limitations

The Community Edition is limited in the following ways:

* A 15second nag screen
* Save and Export has been disabled
* Limited zoom levels
* Can only run transforms on a single entity at a time
* Cannot copy and paste text from detailed view
* Transforms limited to 75 per day
* Throttled client to TAS communication


DOwnload - Linux

Download - Windows

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