Hacking and Security Tools For Beginners and Elite

      Here is this post I have listed out few of the frequently and widely used Tools used by Hackers of all levels.But one thing i would like to mention is that "Hackers make tool but tool do not make Hackers"If you depend more on tools then you cannot evolve as a hacker rather you will be surrounded by tools and dependent on them.




1.Password Cracking Tools:


a) John the ripper-http://www.openwall.com/john/



b) THC hydra-http://www.thc.org/thc-hydra/



c) Brutus-http://www.hoobie.net/brutus/



d) L0PhtCrack-http://www.l0phtcrack.com/




e) SAMInside-http://insidepro.com



f) Cain and abel-http://www.oxid.it/cain.html



g) Pwdump-http://www.foofus.net/fizzgig/pwdump/



2.Pentesting Tools:


a) Metasploit framework- http://www.metasploit.com/




b) Canvas- http://www.immunitysec.com/products-canvas.shtml



3.Sql injector Tools:


a) Sqlihelper



b) Havij



c) SQL Exploiter




4.Website Vulnerability Scanner:


a) Acunetix- http://www.acunetix.com/



b) Rational appscan- http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/appscan/



5.Vulnerability Scanner:


a) Nessus-http://www.nessus.org/




b) Retina-http://www.eeye.com/html/Products/Retina/index.html



c) Sara-http://www-arc.com/sara/



6.Port Scanner:


a) Nmap- http://nmap.org/



b) Angry Ip scanner- http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/




c) Super Scan- http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/superscan.htm



7.Intrusion detection Tools:


a) Snort-http://www.snort.org/



b) Sguil-http://sguil.sourceforge.net/



8.Live CDs:



a) Ophcrack- http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/



b) Backtrack- http://www.backtrack-linux.org/



c) Hiren’s boot cd- http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd



d) Ultimate boot cd- http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/








9.Wireless Tools:


a) Wireshark- http://www.wireshark.org/



b) Kismet-http://www.kismetwireless.net/



c) Aircrack- http://www.aircrack-ng.org/




d) Netstumbler- http://www.stumbler.net/



10.Steganography Tools:


A list of few "STEGANOGRAPHY TOOLS " free to DOWNLOAD.



11.IP Tracing Tools:


a) Neo Trace- http://www.networkingfiles.com/neotrace/




b) Visual Trace-http://www.visualiptrace.com



12.Software Cracking Tools:


a) Debuggers-OllyDbg,WinDbg



b) Unpackers-QUnpack



c) DisAssemblers-WIN32Dasm




d) Decompilers-Boomerang,Mocha,JAD



e) Hex Editors-Hexworkshop,Hview, HxDSetupEN



A list of few "REVERSE ENGINEERING" tools free to Download.



13.Virtual Enviroment Software:


a) Vmware- http://www.vmware.com/



b) Virtual box- http://www.virtualbox.org/




c) Sandboxie- http://www.sandboxie.com/

Check it out...!!