Ethical Hacking Tools Be The First To Know

Ethical Hacking Tools Be The First To Know

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Nowadays new automated tools have been created by developers and IT engineers in order to enhance and totally change the world of ethical hacking and penetration testing. IT security researchers and experts have been creating and currently developing sophisticated penetration testing tools and more over ethical hacking methods and techniques in order to make the tests faster, more reliable and much easier.

The adaptation of new automated ethical hacking techniques and tools has been of great importance and assistance to the IT security engineers. By using some of these tools you can easily say that the hacking process is now not that slow and time consuming as it was before.

By this article you will be able to see summarized some of the best and most important tools that are widely used in the world of ethical hacking and penetration testing.

Nessus

The company which developed Nessus is called Tenable and has created Nessus to be one of the worlds most famous vulnerability scanners. Unfortunately, Nessus is available only for non-enterprise environment means for home users in its free of cost version. This great network vulnerability scanner assists ethical hackers to find critical bugs on a system.

Nmap

Ethical hackers and penetration testers use Nmap in the second phase of ethical hacking which is known as port scanning. Needless to say that Nmap is one of the best tools ever for port scanning, first developed only for Unix/Linux based operating systems but now its Windows version is also available and easy to use.

NetStumbler

NetStumbler is available for wardriving for windows based operating systems. NetStumbler is able to identify WiFi that is IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11a networks compliant. MiniStumbler is also available and works on Windows CE based systems.

Kismet

Kismet allows ethical hackers to detect hidden networks and the presence of non-beaconing networks via data traffic. Kismet is one of the best tools for wireless penetration testing.

Nikto

Nikto is one of the best tools for web server penetration testing. It is a free and open source tool which checks for outdated versions of over 1000 servers.
MetaSploit

Last but not least, Metasploit is a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. Metasploit provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development.
Of course in order to have a complete penetration test you should also use tailor made methods according to the needs of the network under consideration.

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