Which are the best penetration testing/ethical hacking tools?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

1. Metasploit - A free tool, one of the most popular cybersecurity tool around that allows you to locate vulnerabilities at different platforms. As a penetration tester, it pinpoints the vulnerabilities with Nexpose closed-loop integration using Top Remediation reports. 2. Acunetix WVS - It scans and finds out the flaws in a website that could prove fatal. This tool crawls a website and finds out malicious Cross-site Scripting, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. 3. Nmap - It's a free and open source hacking tool is the most popular port scanning tool around that allows efficient network discovery and security auditing. Used for a wide range of services, Nmap uses raw IP packets to determine the hosts available on a network, their services along with details, operating systems used by hosts, the type of firewall used, and other information. 4. Wireshark - It discovers vulnerability within a network and probes firewall rule-sets. Wireshark helps you to read live data from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others. 5. oclHashcat - Generally used for the password cracking. Hashcat is a CPU-based password cracking tool, oclHashcat is its advanced version that uses the power of your GPU. 6. Nessus Vulnerability Scanner - Using Nessus, one can scan multiple types of vulnerabilities that include remote access flaw detection, misconfiguration alert, denial of services against TCP/IP stack, preparation of PCI DSS audits, malware detection, sensitive data searches, etc.

manpreet 2 years ago

It is a type of testing to identify the areas of weakness in software systems in terms of security. For every tester, it is important to have knowledge about the effective Application Penetration Testing Tools. Here are the best penetration/ethical hacking tools to conduct your testing tasks. Wireshark As Wireshark is commonly known as a network protocol analyzer, you can use this tool for tracing the minutest details about your network protocols, packet information, decryption etc. It is compatible with Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD etc. You can view the retrieved information via the TTY mode TShark utility. CORE Impact CORE Impact is one of the expensive Penetration Testing Tools. You can make use of this tool to test mobile device penetration, password identification, network device penetration, cracking, etc. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows. w3af w3af is an exclusive tool developed for Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. It is a special penetrating tool owing to its smart features like fast HTTP requests, integration of web and proxy servers into the code, injecting payloads into various kinds of HTTP request, etc. It is designed with a common- line interface. You can run this tool on Linux, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. All the versions of this software are available at free of cost. Back Track Back Track is one of the best tools available for Packet Sniffing and injecting. If you are skilled in TCP/IP protocol and networking, you can successfully use this tool. Back Track is compatible only with LINUX machines.