Top 10 Tools used by Ethical Hackers

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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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1. 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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2. 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 its 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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3. 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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4. 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 applications
  attack surface.

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5. 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.