Powerful Free Hacking Tools 2016
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| Powerful Free Hacking Tools 2016 |
Today we are going to share a list of Powerful Hacking
Tools! Hacking is a complex process therefore we can’t hack without tools;
sometimes it’s so hard and gets much time to hack without hacking tools. In the
world of Cyber Hacking (“Cyber Security” formally) there are millions of tools
which are available on the Internet either as Freeware or Sharewares.
If you are security researcher, pen-tester or a system
admin, you need to have these tools on your PCs/laptops to find the
vulnerabilities and patch them. Concise Courses conducted an online
poll to determine top ten hacking tools out of some of the prominent &
powerful ones. So here is the Hacking Arsenal suggested by the poll as winner:
1. Nmap: Network Mapper
Abbreviated as Nmap is a versatile tool for Network
Security, plus it is free and open source. It is largely used by network
administrators for network discovery and security auditing. System Admins use Nmap
for network inventory, determining open ports, managing service upgrade
schedules, and monitoring host (A term used for “a computer on a network”) or
service uptime. The tool uses raw IP packets in many creative ways to determine
what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version)
they offer, which type of protocols are being used for providing the services, what
operating systems (and OS versions and possible patches) and what type and
version of packet filters/ firewalls are being used by the target.
2. Metasploit:
A tool for exploiting (Utilizing network weakness for making
a “backdoor”) vulnerabilities (Weak Points) on Network. This tool is neither
free nor open source. But when it comes to features offered it deserves the
price it claims. The Metasploit Project is a hugely popular pentesting
(penetration testing) or hacking tool that is used by cyber security
professionals and ethical hackers. Metasploit is essentially a computer
security project that supplies information about known security vulnerabilities
and helps to formulate penetration testing and IDS testing.
3. Cain and Abel:
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool that is mostly
used for Microsoft Operating Systems. This popular hacking tool allows the user
to seek the recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the
network(capturing some of the data packets), cracking encrypted passwords using
Dictionary, Brute-Force(Generation of hashes out of words and then comparison
of encrypted hash with the generated one, this method takes less time than
dictionary attack method) and Cryptanalysis attacks. Cain, as it is often
referred to, can also record VoIP(Voice over IP protocol, used for making calls
over using internet) conversations, decode hashed scrambled passwords, recover
wireless network keys and more. It can crack various types of hashes including
NTLM,MD2,MD5,SHA-1,SHA-2 and many more. These functionalities make Cain and
Abel one of the best password recovery tool.
4. Angry IP Scanner:
Angry IP Scanner, also known as ‘IPscan’ is a freely
available (open-source and cross-platform) hacking network scanner that is both
fast and easy to use. The main purpose of this hacking tool is to scan IP
addresses and ports to find open doors and ports. Worth noting that Angry IP
Scanner also has a bunch of other uses as well. Common users of this hacking
tool include network administrators and system engineers.
5 .John The Ripper:
John the Ripper is a popular password cracking pentesting
tool that is most commonly used to perform dictionary attacks. John the Ripper
takes text string samples (from a text file, referred to as a wordlist,
containing popular and complex words found in a dictionary or real passwords
cracked before), encrypting it in the same way as the password being cracked
(including both the encryption algorithm and key), and comparing the output to
the encrypted string. This tool can also be used to perform a variety of
alterations to dictionary attacks. Including Brute Force and Rainbow attacks.
6. THC Hydra:
Although often considered as yet another password cracker,
THC Hydra is hugely popular and has a very active and experienced development
team. Essentially THC Hydra is a fast and stable Network Login Hacking Tool
that will use dictionary or brute-force attacks to try various password and
login combinations against an log in page. This hacking tool supports a wide
set of protocols including Mail (POP3, IMAP, etc.), Databases, LDAP (Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol),SMB, VNC, and SSH (Secure Shell, used by VPN
Softwares).
7. Burp Suite:
A pentesting tool, Burp Suite has several features that can
help the penetration tester or ethical hacker. Two commonly used applications
used within this tool include the ‘Burp Suite Spider’ which can enumerate and
map out the various pages and parameters of a web site by examining cookies and
initiates connections with these web applications, and the ‘Intruder’ which
performs automated attacks on web applications.
8. Nessus Remote Security Scanner
Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free.
Works with a client-server framework. Nessus is the world’s most popular
vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the
world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using
Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications. (This
tool is not in the concise list)
9. Ettercap:
Ettercap has a huge following and is widely used by cyber
security professionals. Ettercap works by placing the user’s network interface
into promiscuous mode and by ARP poisoning(ARP : Address resolution protocol is
used to determine a host’s MAC address (address of its Network Interface Card)
by knowing its IP address. ARP poisoning is a process where a hacker gives
wrong information of either its MAC or IP address to the network.) The target
machines, i.e. facilitating a ‘Man In The Middle’ or MITM attack. Once
successful Ettercap (and the hacker) can deploy various attacks on the victims.
A popular feature about Ettercap is its’ ability to support various plugins.
10. Wapiti:
Wapiti has a very loyal following. As a pentesting tool (or
framework) Wapiti is able to scan and detect hundreds of possible
vulnerabilities. Essentially this Multi Purpose Hacker Tools can audit the
security of web applications by performing “black-box” scans, i.e. it does not
study the source code of the application but will scan the HTML pages of the
application seeking scripts and forms where it can inject data.
If you have any favorite tool of your own which we have not
mentioned in this post, kindly mention it in the comment box so that we can
include it in this or upcoming post.
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