The Best Tools and Tactics for Ethical Hacking: How to Hack Like a Pro | nilranbow
Best Tools and Tactics for Ethical Hacking
What are hacking tools?
1. Botnet Hack Tools: Some hacking tools, also called botnets, were created to help government agencies or large corporations in performing massive-scale attacks. The malicious tools were utilized to attack and break into systems of multiple systems, resulting in chaos. In a botnet, it is possible for hackers to divert the cyber activities of millions of victims to individual servers, effectively bypassing the filters and security measures.
2. DNS Changer: It is an open-source program that allows users to change the nameservers (that translates a domain name to an IP address) of targeted systems. This is achieved by entering specific domain names and pretending that the system is using those domain names instead of the legitimate one.
Which are the best hacking tools?
Some of the best ethical hacking tools are listed below:
Intrusion Detection System, also known as IPS – This software will detect when system is under threat from malicious intrusion. There are various free tools available that can be used for checking IPS in your system. In the next few paragraphs we will talk about best web application firewalls, also known as a WAF. They are designed to detect and prevent malicious code from running on web servers. The web application firewalls work best on websites and don’t have many limitations as compared to a web application firewall. WAFs are in use in several high-end organizations across the world. FireEye Flash Player – This is a free application.
Hacking Tools features, packages, ratings and reviews
PokeHackers – Wiki:https://pokehackers.info
Hack0r – Wiki: https://hack0r.com
BeTop – Wiki: https://betop.net
EvilHackers – Wiki: http://evilhackers.com
MalwareBytes – Wiki: https://malwarebytes.org
DigiD – Wiki: http://digid.cc
JDI – Wiki: http://jdi.org
Digital DAD – Wiki: http://digitaldad.com
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware – Wiki: http://malwarebytes.org/ Anti-Malware Scanner
Mantrix – Wiki: http://www.mannix.com
PyHound – Wiki: https://pyhound.com/
Thermacore – Wiki: https://thermacore.com
AVG – Wiki: https://www.avg.com/ Anti-Virus
AVG Web Security – Wiki: http://www.avg.com/ Anti-Virus
RiskTool – Wiki: http://www.risktool.com
NOD32 – Wiki: https://www.nod32.com/ Anti-Virus, Malware
Trend Micro – Wiki: https://www.trendmicro.
Conclusion
Ethical hacking can be termed as all kinds of attacks which can be carried out by hackers against computer systems, networks and databases. Hacking can be carried out by small-scale group of people as well as big enterprises. It also offers an opportunity for hackers to earn money. On the other hand, ethical hacking has various advantages as it improves your knowledge, security skills and hacking abilities.
It helps you build expertise and skills so that you can access a lot of tools and IT infrastructure from your laptop and desktop. So, you can easily hack a system by yourself and easily find out about the weak point of a system.
Benjamin is the chief security officer at The Loafing lizard
He writes on security and hacking technologies and brands.