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.
1.Nmap
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
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
