Top 10 Hackers Tools

Top 10 Hackers tools of 2015 are:

 Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a tools used by almost every penetration tester or ethical hacker. It is a tool having several cool features. To common tools in burp suite is Burp Suite Spider and Intruder. Burp Suite Spider can enumerate and can also map-out many web pages and parameters of website by checking cookies and establishing connections with web applications. Where as Intruder is a tools used to perform automated attacks on website application.

Burp Suite is an amazing website hacking tool which security researchers use to find vulnerabilities in website and website application. You can use burp suite only if you have detail knowledge of applications that is targeted in the HTTP protocol. Burp Suite functions through an algorithm that can be configure and also generates malicious attacking HTTP requests that a penetration tester would use. Burp Suite is useful in finding security vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS (Cross Site Scripting) etc.

Metasploit

Metasploit a tool to which penetration testers or ethical hackers says King of All Hacking Tools. It is the one of the famous tool used by almost every hacker or penetration tester. Metasploit is basically a project of computer security that gives information about the security vulnerabilities and also helps to formulate pen-testing and IDS testing. 

Metasploit is a project of Metasploit Framework. This hacking tool is famous for its anti forensic tool. Many other tools are also built into it.

  Chain & Abel

Chain & Abel is also a popular tool which is used for the recovery of password and is mostly used for Microsoft O/S. This popular tools allows the attackers to get the recovery of different kind of passwords by sniffing the networks, cracking the passwords which are encrypted using Brute Force Attack, Dictionary Attack and by Cryptanalysis techniques. Cain & Abel is also used for recoding VoIP conversations, recovery of wirless network key, decoding of hashed passwords and much more!

John The Ripper

John the Ripper is also a wonderful tool which is famous for password cracking . This tool is mainly used for Dictionary Attacks. John the Ripper ask user for a word-list(a file containing complex words like in dictionary or passwords cracked before) and encrypt it in the same method as the password is being encrypted and then compare the output to the encrypted string. In addition to dictionary attack, John the Ripper also gives the facility of brute force.

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is a tool used for cracking wifi passwords. It is an amazing tool with which an easily crack WEP passwords. WPA password can also be cracked with it by using dictionary and buret force attacks. Aircrack-ng is available both for Windows and Linux, but it is best to use with Linux environment. With Windows you might come across many problems.

 WireShark

Wireshark is a tool used for sniffing network packets. It captures all traffic of network through an adapter. While performing attacks like MITM(Man In The Middle Attack) using tool like Chain, You can use Wireshark to capture all the traffic and analyze it for some information like usernames and passwords. It is mainly used by network administrators for performing network troubleshooting.

Nmap

Nmap is a tool which is also known as The Swiss Army Knife of Hacking. It is one of the best port scanner tool which alot of functions. Nmap is usually used for footprinting to scan the open ports of the remote computer for performing various attacks.

THC-Hydra

THC-Hydra is a super fast password cracking tool. It perform attack of cracking password through a network. It has the ability to crack the passwords of different protocols like http,ftp,smtp etc. It require a word-list for cracking possible passwords. It works best under Linux environment.

Netcat

Netcat is an amazing networking tool which is used to reads or writes data across network connections by using TCP/IP protocol. It also called as The Swiss Army Knife of TCP/IP. This is so because it is an amazing and versatile and can almost anything across TCP/IP. In Hacking field it can be used as backdoor to gain access of hacked computer to remote connection. It is limited only to the user's imagination.

sqlmap

sqlmap is a tool used for detecting and exploiting SQL vulnerabilities automatically. It a very powerful tool. It is having a powerful detection engine, many other features for penetration tester and hackers. It has a board range of switches starting from database fingerprinting, fetching data from database, executing commands on operating system with out of band connections.

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