There have been a lot of tools floating around the web who claim to be the best in their respective fields.
I have used many hacking tools that
are built for both windows and linux platform and have seen that the
linux tools are far more powerful than the windows tools. Keeping this
thing in mind i thought to compile my list to those softwares that work well for both the platform and perform similar features.
The list
has some new names compared to those in last years blog. I have also
provided a download link of all the ten softwares compiled in a single
zipped file to ease the downloading.
Nmap ,by far is the best security scanning and hacking tool ever made. This software tops every list of top hacking softwares for its two reasons. Firstly,its ease of use and secondly,its wide usage.
It provides
a wide range of features like port scanning, fingureprinting, os
detection , ping , scanning an IP range , alive hosts etc. It has a rich
command mode for advanced users which can combine several commands
together to execute ones. Its the most recomended tool for new as well
as advanced learners and security experts. It hosts its google opensource project every year.
Download the zip.
2.SuperScan
Powerful
TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 is an update of the
highly popular Windows port scanning tool, SuperScan. If you need an alternative for nmap on Windows with a decent interface, I
suggest you check this out, it’s pretty nice. It provides a cool scanning experience with lot of information displayed .Downlaod the zip
3.Cain and Abel
My personal favourite for password
cracking of any kind.
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating
Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by
sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary,
Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations,
decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering
cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort.
Download the zip
4.John The Riper
This is my personal favourite password
cracking
which has been in the market for over a decade and it has evolved into a
powerful tool because of the special effort of the open source
community.John the Ripper is a fast
password cracker,
currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially
supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and
OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides
several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix
flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.
Download the zip
5.fsCrack
FSCrack is a front end for John the Ripper (JtR) that provides a
graphical user interface (GUI) for access to most of JtR’s functions.It
increases the functionality of JTR and provides a detailed report of
password cracking . The working is similar to JTR by using the SAM file
of windows to crack the admin password.
Download the zip
6.Nessus Security Scanner
This tool has been the best tool for both network administrators and
hackers because of its wide implimentation.The Nessus® vulnerability
scanner is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high-speed
discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data
discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus
scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs
and across physically separate networks.
Download the zip
7.Wireshark
Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer, or sniffer, that
lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network
frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality
analyzer for Unix and to give Wireshark features that are missing from
closed-source sniffers. Works great on both Linux and Windows (with a
GUI), easy to use and can reconstruct TCP/IP Streams!.
Download the zip
8.Live Bulk Mailer
Live bulk mailer has the ability to still deface the spam filter of
gmail,hotmail and yahoo. Its an email flooding tool that allows the
attacker to send desired number of bulk mails to the victim inbox and
flood it completely. This can be an annoying task and can also put you
into trouble so before using this tool dont forget to use a proxy server
to hide your IP address.
Download the zip
9.Website Digger
Website digger is a tool that helps you to digg into a website and gain
information about the host by applying whois query and also banner
grabbing capability. This tool is useful while defacing a webpage.
Download the zip
10.PuTTY
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix
platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. A must have for any
h4. 0r wanting to telnet or SSH from Windows without having to use the
crappy default MS command line clients.
Download the zip
7. NIKTO 2-
8. Low orbit Ion Cannon-
9.CAIN & ABEL-
10. HIDE IP- 
