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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.
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