Top 10 Tools used by Ethical Hackers
Ethical Hackers uses a lot of automated tools these days, which have made their task easier as compared to the early days. With the increasing number of Ethical Hackers, we find a lot of tools that make the work easier. Having 100 tools in the marketplace, it becomes really hard to choose the right one. Having several Ethical hacking tools, here we have come up with the list of top 10 tools used by Ethical Hackers.
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NMap (Network Mapper)
It is a security mapper capable of discovering services and hosts on a prescribed network. Being an open source and a network map tool it is extensively used by Ethical Hackers. Using this tool you can make network discovery and security auditing easy. The current version Nmap 7.70 is available. This new version included new OS and service fingerprints and also 9 new NSE scripts.
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Angry IP Scanner
It is one of the most used & famous tools which scan IP addresses and ports. This tool is available for all the platforms and used anywhere. Consisting of features where you can resolve the hostname, determines the MAC address, scans ports and many more. The best part of this tool is that it’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. One of the cool features about this tool is NetBIOS, that allows you to give information like computer name, workgroup name, and currently logged in Windows user.
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Ettercap
Ettercap stands for Ethernet Capture and is one of the most useful tools owing to its functionality. It has got several features for network and host analysis, active and passive dissection of many protocols, among others. It is compatible with Linux, Mac OS X, Windows.
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Burp Suite
Ethical hackers usually use this tool for testing the security of web applications. It provides a comprehensive solution in terms of security testing by providing features such as initial mapping to the analysis of the application’s attack surface.
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Nessus
Being free to use, Nessus is one of the most used tools by the Ethical hacker to Prevent network attacks. Used by top industries to secure their data Nessus has now become the most used tool among ethical hackers. With the help of this tool, you can identify software flaws, missing patches, malware attacks, configuration issues.