A tool like Maltego just might put this Google Hacker out of business..

- Johnny Long (johnny.ihackstuff.com)

Mining the Internet is tough, slow and dirty work, but with Maltego, I find I need to hold back. It's far too easy to dig too far too fast. Some things are better left undiscovered.

- Johnny Long (johnny.ihackstuff.com)

Maltego is a one-stop resource for carrying out foot-printing and passive analysis.

- Kevin Orrey (vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk)

"Maltego is a new breakthrough in information gathering tools."

- Iain (Lifedork.com)

"(Maltego) might prove to be a lucrative offering for those with a hankering for customized and controlled intelligence gathering."

- Joe Barr (linux.com)

The ease with which you can dig deep into a Website, identity, e-mail address, IP address, and domain name is awesome."

- John Sawyer [DarkReading]

Maltego's open source intelligence software brings data mining to the massses."

- Taylor Buley [Forbes]

Mining the Internet is tough, slow and dirty work, but with Maltego, I find I need to hold back. It's far too easy to dig too far too fast. Some things are better left undiscovered."

- Johnny Long

Maltego GUI is off-the-freaking-chain."

- Dmitry Chan [Securiteam]

This is how to empower organizations to manage todays open source data gathering and processing challenges."

- Ollie Whitehouse

I wish to commend you on such a good resource as Maltego. I am making very good use of it as I find it AMAZING for my botnet/malware/malicious network research."

-Andre' M. DiMino [Shadowserver]

(Maltego is) one of the most extensible, innovative and frankly awesome tool that a tester MUST know about and be able to use effectively."

- Kevin Orrey [vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk]

Maltego has loads of features that help the enumeration process quite a lot."

- PDP

(Maltego) is worth taking for a test drive whether you're a pen tester or just someone responsible for securing your company's IT assets."

- John Sawyer [Dark Reading]

It's an example of open source intelligence gathering and analysis at its best."

- Ollie Whitehouse

Maltego 2.0.2 release (with local transforms!)
Sunday, 11 January 2009 02:00

Hi All,

It is with great pleasure that we announce the latest version of Maltego, 2.0.2 – even bigger and better than before!

Finally, the request everyone has been waiting for, transforms that are executed locally and not on the server. These allow for custom transforms to be written that integrate with Maltego though a simple interface with the ability to code in practically any language. Sample libraries and a few custom transforms are available on the forums (http://www.paterva.com/forum/ ) under the “Development” section.
We also have the specification for local transforms available on the wiki (http://ctas.paterva.com/view/Specification ) as well as in PDF version (http://www.paterva.com/docs/localTransforms-SpecIII.pdf ).

Download links for 2.0.2:
Windows – http://www.paterva.com/malv2/MaltegoInstaller-v202.exe
Linux – http://www.paterva.com/malv2/MaltegoInstaller-v202.jar

As with the other releases, the CE version will be arriving later this year, hopefully the Mac edition’s of these as well.

The interface for creating local transforms within the GUI is not completely finished, but this release should be ample to allow you to get your feet wet with local transforms.

With this new release we have also included the Pen Testing entities for use with your own local transforms.

Have fun, and we look forward to awesome new transforms :)

Enjoy,
Andrew MacPherson