Android App Turns Smartphones Into Mobile Hacking Machines

**no1_vern** · August 8th, 2011, 10:25 AM

"ANTI" is an android app that can perform penetration testing to find out and demonstrate vulnerabilities in computer systems. As long is its in an honest persons' hands it will work as intended.
Android App Turns Smartphones Into Mobile Hacking Machines - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes

Dangerous hacks come in small packages.
Anti aims to bring all the hacking tools available to penetration testers on PCs to smartphones, with an automated interface intended to make sniffing local networks and owning remote servers as simple as pushing a few buttons.

“We wanted to create a penetration testing tool for the masses, says Itzhak “Zuk” Avraham, founder of Tel-Aviv-based Zimperium. “It’s about being able to do what advanced hackers do with a really good implementation. In your pocket.”

Anti, a free app with a $10 corporate upgrade, will offer a wi-fi-scanning tool for finding open networks and showing all potential target devices on those networks, as well as traceroute software that can reveal the IP addresses of faraway servers. When a target is identified, the app offers up a simple menu with commands like “Man-In-The-Middle” to eavesdrop on local devices, or even “Attack”; The app is designed to run exploits collected in platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB, using vulnerabilities in out-of-date software to compromise targets.

Sounds like I have at least one good reason for buying an Android phone/device.