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

ISSA Toolsmith tool of the year
Wednesday, 09 December 2009 11:52

Maltego has been awarded the 2009 toolsmith tool of the year!

From the article found here:

"Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application.
While researching and writing for December's article I fell completely for this tool.
It was a difficult decision having covered some brilliant and remarkable tools in 2009, but only one can come out on top.
The 2009 Toolsmith Tool of the Year is Maltego"

Links:

Toolsmith blog posting: http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com/2009/11/maltego-is-2009-toolsmith-tool-of-year.html
December 2009 toolsmith: http://www.holisticinfosec.org/toolsmith/docs/december2009.html
ISSA: https://www.issa.org/
Toolsmith: http://holisticinfosec.org/content/view/12/26/