Ethical Hacking Tools

 

Ethical hacking tools:

Ethical hacking is a discipline widely followed by major big-wigs of tech industry to protect their organization against any forthcoming problems from black hat hackers.

Data has become an invaluable resource. Accordingly the preservation of privacy ,and integrity of data has also increased in importance. In essence, this makes ethic al hacking extremely important today.

An ethical hacker is a computer expert, who specializes in networking and penetration testing.

Nmap:

Nmap, short form of Network Mapper ,is a reconnaissance tool that is widely used by ethical hackers to gather information about a target system.

This information is key to deciding the proceeding steps to attack the target system. Nmap is a cross-platform and works on Mac, Linux,and Windows. It has gained immense popularity in the hacking community due to its ease of use and powerful searching and scanning abilities.

Netsparker:

Netsparker is a web application security testing and tool. Netsparker finds and reports web application vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and Cross-site Scripting on all types of web application, regardless of the platform and technology they are built with. Netsparker’s unique and dead accurate Proof-Based scanning technology does not just report vulnerabilities,it also produces a proof of concepts to confirm they are not false positive.

Burpsuite:

Burpsuite is a java based web penetration testing framework. It has become an industry standard suite of tools used by information security professionals. Burp suite helps you identify vulnerabilities and verify attack vectors that are affecting web application. Burp suits unquestionable acceptance and frame can be attributed to the fantastic web application crawler.

Metasploit:

Metasploit is an open source pen testing framework written in Ruby. It acts as a public resource for researching security vulnerabilities and developing code that allows a network to identify security risk and document which vulnerabilities need to be addressed first. It is also one of the few tools used by beginner hackers to practice their skills.