Hacking Tools

We have compiled this list of top hacking tools of 2016 with their best features and download links. Read about them, learn how to use them and share your reviews to make this list better.

Metasploit | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

Rather than calling Metasploit a collection of exploit tools, I’ll call it an infrastructure that you can utilize to build your own custom tools. This free tool is one of the most popular cybersecurity tool around that allows you to locate vulnerabilities at different platforms. Metasploit is backed by more than 200,000 users and contributors that help you to get insights and uncover the weaknesses in your system.

This top hacking tool package of 2016 lets you simulate real-world attacks to tell you about the weak points and finds them. As a penetration tester, it pin points the vulnerabilities with Nexpose closed–loop integration using Top Remediation reports. Using the open source Metasploit framework, users can build their own tools and take the best out of this multi-purpose hacking tool.

Metasploit is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X.

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Acunetix WVS | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner (WVS) that scans and finds out the flaws in a website that could prove fatal. This multi-threaded tool crawls a website and finds out malicious Cross-site Scripting, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. This fast and easy to use tool scans WordPress websites form more than 1200 vulnerabilities in WordPress.

Acunetix comes with a Login Sequence Recorder that allows one to access the password protected areas of websites. The new AcuSensor technology used in this tool allows you to reduce the false positive rate. Such features have made Acunetix WVS a preferred hacking tools that you need to check out in 2016.

Acunetix is available for Windows XP and higher.

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Nmap | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

Nmap – also known as Network Mapper – falls in the category of a port scanner tool. This free and open source 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.

Last year, Nmap won multiple security products of the year awards and was featured in multiple movies including The Matrix Reloaded, Die Hard 4, and others.  Available in the command line, Nmap executable also comes in an advanced GUI avatar.

Nmap is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X.

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Also Read: Best Hacking Apps For Android Phones

Wireshark | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

Wireshark is a well-known packet crafting tool that discovers vulnerability within a network and probes firewall rule-sets. Used by thousands of security professionals to analyze networks and live pocket capturing and deep scanning of hundreds of protocols. Wireshark helps you to read live data from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others.

This free and open source tool was originally named Ethereal. Wireshark also comes in a command-line version called TShark.

This GTK+-based network protocol analyzer runs with ease on Linux, Windows, and OS X.

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oclHashcat | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

If password cracking is something you do on daily basis, you might be aware of the free password cracking tool Hashcat. While Hashcat is a CPU-based password cracking tool, oclHashcat is its advanced version that uses the power of your GPU.

oclHashcat calls itself world’s fastest password cracking tool with world’s first and only GPGPU based engine. For using the tool, NVIDIA users require ForceWare 346.59 or later and AMD users require Catalyst 15.7 or later.

This tool employs follo

• Straight
• Combination
• Brute-force
• Hybrid dictionary + mask
• Hybrid mask + dictionary

Mentioning another major feature, oclHashcat is an open source tool under MIT license that allows an easy integration or packaging of the common Linux distros.

This useful hacking tool can be downloaded in different versions  for Linux, OSX, and Windows.wing attack modes for cracking:

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Nessus Vulnerability Scanner | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

This top free hacking tool of 2016 works with the help of a client-server framework. Developed by Tenable Network Security, the tool is one of the most popular vulnerability scanners we have. Nessus serves different purposes to different types of users – Nessus Home, Nessus Professional, Nessus Manager and Nessus Cloud.

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. To launch a dictionary attack, Nessus can also call a popular tool Hydra externally.

Apart from the above mentioned basic functionalities, Nessus could be used to scan multiple networks on IPv4, IPv6 and hybrid networks. You can set scheduled scan to run at your chosen time and re-scan all or a subsection of previously scanned hosts using selective host re-scanning.

Nessus is supported by a variety of platforms including Windows 7 and 8, Mac OS X, and popular Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Kali Linux etc.

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Maltego | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

Maltego is an open source forensics platform that offers rigorous mining and information gathering to paint a picture of cyber threats around you. Maltego excels in showing the complexity and severity of points of failure in your infrastructure and the surrounding environment.

Maltego is a great hacker tool that analyzes the real world links between people, companies, websites, domains, DNS names, IP addresses, documents and whatnot. Based on Java, this tool runs in an easy-to-use graphical interface with lost customization options while scanning.

Maltego hacking tool  is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Social-Engineer Toolkit | Best Hacking Tools Of 2016

Also featured on Mr. Robot, TrustedSec’s Social-Engineer Toolkit is an advanced framework for simulating multiple types of social engineering attacks like credential harvestings, phishing attacks, and more. On the show, Elliot is seen using the SMS spoofing tool from the Social-Engineer Toolkit.

This Python-driven tool is the standard tool for social-engineering penetration tests with more than two million downloads. It automates the attacks and generates disguising emails, malicious web pages and more.

To download SET on Linux, type the following command:

1	git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/ set/

Apart from Linux, Social-Engineer Toolkit is partially supported on Mac OS X and Windows.

Other top hacking tools in multiple categories:

Web Vulnerability Scanners – Burp Suite, Firebug, AppScan, OWASP Zed, Paros Proxy

Vulnerability Exploitation Tools – Netsparker, sqlmap, Core Impact, WebGoat, BeEF

Forensic Tools – Helix3 Pro, EnCase, Autopsy

Port Scanners – Unicornscan, NetScanTools, Angry IP Scanner

Traffic Monitoring Tools – Nagios, Ntop, Splunk, Ngrep, Argus

Debuggers – IDA Pro, WinDbg, Immunity Debugger, GDB

Rootkit Detectors – DumpSec, Tripwire, HijackThis

Encryption Tools – KeePass, OpenSSL, OpenSSH/PuTTY/SSH, Tor

Password Crackers – John the Ripper, Aircrack, Hydra, ophcrack

We hope that you found this top hacking tools of 2016 list helpful. Share your reviews in the comments below and help us improve this list.

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other tools 

Web Vulnerability Scanners – Burp Suite, Firebug, AppScan, OWASP Zed, Paros Proxy

Vulnerability Exploitation Tools – Netsparker, sqlmap, Core Impact, WebGoat, BeEF

Forensic Tools – Helix3 Pro, EnCase, Autopsy

Port Scanners – Unicornscan, NetScanTools, Angry IP Scanner

Traffic Monitoring Tools – Nagios, Ntop, Splunk, Ngrep, Argus

Debuggers – IDA Pro, WinDbg, Immunity Debugger, GDB

Rootkit Detectors – DumpSec, Tripwire, HijackThis

Encryption Tools – KeePass, OpenSSL, OpenSSH/PuTTY/SSH, Tor

Password Crackers – John the Ripper, Aircrack, Hydra, ophcrack

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SUPER HACKERS BORN IN INDIA

Computer hackers are almost always celebrated, whether they fall in the ‘black’ or ‘white’ side of the law. But you rarely get to hear about Indian hackers in our own media. And especially when these hackers are decisively helping organizations and governments in positive ways they ought to be celebrated. Here are 11 best Indian hackers we all should know of.

1. Rahul Tyagi

Rahul Tyagi | Source: twitter.com

Aside from being an expert on breaking and entering computers Rahul Tyagi is also an author and a talented actor. With over a hundred training sessions under his belt this guy is as versatile as it gets.

2. Pranav Mistry

Source: vulcanpost.com

This hacker extraordinaire is also famous for the invention of SixthSense-a technology that’s used by NASA and also the invisible computer mouse-yes, invisible.

3. Ankit Fadia

Ankit Fadia | Source: attrition.org

Writing a book titled ‘Unofficial guide to ethical hacking’ at the age of 15 is a far cry from playing football at that tender age. And yet, that’s exactly what Fadia did, and the rest is history when it comes to this world-renowned Indian ethical hacker.

4. Koushik Dutta

Koushik Dutta | Source: egglets.com

After completing his internship with Microsoft, Dutta left the firm and went on to hack Android cell phones. Don’t ask me why, that’s how these guys work. Presently working with Clockwork mod, he turned down an offer from Sony and is working independently for making mobile platforms safer for Android users.

5. Vivek Ramachandran

Vivek Ramachandran | source: vivekramachandran.com

Having won many awards including ones from both Microsoft and Cisco, Vivek is a force to reckon with in the field of computer security-his oeuvre spread across embedded systems security, e-governance, wireless security and computer forensics.

6. Trishneet Arora

Trishneet Arora | source: thecampusentrepreneur.com

If you wanna know how it feels like to be 20 years old and world-renowned, ask Trishneet Arora. The dude is actually against hacking and helps companies and industries to protect their security systems.

7. Sunny Vaghela

Sunny Vaghela | Source: udaipurtimes.com

Vaghela was responsible for spotting loopholes in SMS and call forging in mobile network, that too when he was 18. To his credit, he has also helped Mumbai and Ahmedabad police solve terrorist threats.

8. Benild Joseph

Benild Joseph | Source: twitter.com

This 23 year old Calicut-born guy used to be the director of the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, New Delhi. Benild has registered and pending patents in the arenas of cyber crime forensics and information to his name. He is also the current acting CEO of ‘Th3 art of h@ckin9.’ Sigh, and I though good things came only to those who wait!

9. Falgun Rathod

Falgun Rathod | Source: clubhack.tv

Considered as the leader in information security in the country, Rathod has played a pivotal role in spreading awareness about info security in India. And yeah, he’s also young-just 25.

10. Rajesh Babu

One of the most dynamic and most ‘secretive’ of all ethical hackers he used to free lance for many government and corporate agencies and now runs his own company in Kerala called Mirox. It’s said that Babu has created the best team of ethical hackers in the country.

11. Jayant Krishnamurthy

Jayant Krishnamurthy | Source: wikipedia.org

This real life hacker has interests ranging from information extraction to knowledge representation and common sense reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. He is also a computer theorist and researcher. And if those things don’t ring a bell with you, worry not, I can assure you that you’re not alone. I’m getting dizzy just hearing such terms.

These Indian hackers reveal the unending possibilities of the digital domain and also put the country on the global map of progress. A big geeky nod to all of them

PRATIK SHINDE 

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TYPES OF Hackers

First, a short myth:

A 15-year-old boy sits behind a glowing black monitor, typing furiously. The green text streams across his screen like a waterfall. His nervousness escalates dramatically as he sends rapid-fire commands to the strained computer. Suddenly, he lets out a triumphant laugh and proceeds to steal money.

Such is the stereotypical view of a hacker. Yet, there’s so much more to this fine art than Hollywood or the media describes. Hackers are varied creatures and include these 7 types:

1. Script Kiddie – Script Kiddies normally don’t care about hacking (if they did, they’d be Green Hats. See below.). They copy code and use it for a virus or an SQLi or something else. Script Kiddies will never hack for themselves; they’ll just download overused software (LOIC or Metasploit, for example) and watch a YouTube video on how to use it. A common Script Kiddie attack is DoSing or DDoSing (Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service), in which they flood an IP with so much information it collapses under the strain. This attack is frequently used by the “hacker” group Anonymous, which doesn’t help anyone’s reputation.
2. White Hat – Also known as ethical hackers, White Hat hackers are the good guys of the hacker world. They’ll help you remove a virus or PenTest a company. Most White Hat hackers hold a college degree in IT security or computer science and must be certified to pursue a career in hacking. The most popular certification is the CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council.
3. Black Hat – Also known as crackers, these are the men and women you hear about in the news. They find banks or other companies with weak security and steal money or credit card information. The surprising truth about their methods of attack is that they often use common hacking practices they learned early on.
4. Gray Hat – Nothing is ever just black or white; the same is true in the world of hacking. Gray Hat hackers don’t steal money or information (although, sometimes they deface a website or two), yet they don’t help people for good (but, they could if they wanted to). These hackers comprise most of the hacking world, even though Black Hat hackers garner most (if not all) of the media’s attention.
5. Green Hat – These are the hacker “n00bz,” but unlike Script Kiddies, they care about hacking and strive to become full-blown hackers. They’re often flamed by the hacker community for asking many basic questions. When their questions are answered, they’ll listen with the intent and curiosity of a child listening to family stories.
6. Red Hat – These are the vigilantes of the hacker world. They’re like White Hats in that they halt Black Hats, but these folks are downright SCARY to those who have ever tried so much as PenTest. Instead of reporting the malicious hacker, they shut him/her down by uploading viruses, DoSing and accessing his/her computer to destroy it from the inside out. They leverage multiple aggressive methods that might force a cracker to need a new computer.
7. Blue Hat – If a Script Kiddie took revenge, he/she might become a Blue Hat. Blue Hat hackers will seek vengeance on those who’ve them angry. Most Blue Hats are n00bz, but like the Script Kiddies, they have no desire to learn.

There you have it. Thanks for reading.