So Linux Live CDs based around hacking or penetration testing used to be a super big deal, they died down a bit in the last few years. The king of the hill back in 2011 used to be BackTrack and the last time we mentioned it was when BackTrack 5 came out. This article is […]
Hacking Tools
Hacking Tools are pieces of software or programs created to help you with hacking or that users can utilise for hacking purposes.
Examples include Wep0ff – Wifi Cracking Tool, Brutus Password Cracker, wwwhack Web Hacking, THC-Hydra Network Login Hacking and pwdump/fgdump Windows Password Dumping Tools.
You can find the latest and best hacking tools below and more on Wikipedia.
Script Kiddie Hacking Tools
There are various tools that are classified as too easy to use, or too automated and these fall into the category of Script Kiddie Tools. These are people who just follow instructions from a manual or tutorial without really understanding the technology or process happening.
Examples of these tools would mainly be password cracking tools like Cain and Abel Password Cracker, Brutus Password Cracker and John the Ripper for Password Cracking.
Radare – The Reverse Engineering Framework
Radare started out as a simple command line interface for a hexadecimal editor supporting 64 bit offsets to make searches and recovering data from hard-disks. It has evolved into a project that is composed of a hexadecimal editor as the central point of the project with assembler/disassembler, code analysis, scripting features, analysis and graphs of […]
ZMap – Fast Open-Source Network Scanner
ZMap is a fast open-source network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys. On a typical desktop computer with a gigabit Ethernet connection, ZMap is capable scanning the entire public IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes. While previous network tools have been designed to scan small network segments, ZMap is specifically architected to scan the […]
Arachni v1.0 Released – Web Application Security Scanner Framework
Arachni is an Open Source, feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications. It is smart, it trains itself by monitoring and learning from the web application’s behaviour during the scan process and is able to perform meta-analysis using a number of factors in order […]
iSniff-GPS – Passive Wifi Sniffing Tool With Location Data
iSniff GPS is a passive wifi sniffing tool which sniffs for SSID probes, ARPs and MDNS (Bonjour) packets broadcast by nearby iPhones, iPads and other wireless devices. The aim is to collect data which can be used to identify each device and determine previous geographical locations, based solely on information each device discloses about previously […]