8 Best Hacking Tools

This is a free, open source software that acts as a port scanner, security scanner and network exploration tool.

Nmap

This fully automated scanner helps find any cybersecurity lapses in your digital space and explains the risks and their remedies.

Intruder

Yet another open-source tool that can be downloaded for free, Metasploit Pro is a commercial product.

Metasploit

This provides a variety of tools to evaluate Wi-Fi network security. Aircrack Ng supports Windows, Linux, OpenBSD and other OS.

Aircrack Ng

Wireshark supports cross-platform and performs deep inspection of different protocols.

Wireshark

OpenVAS is a fully-featured tool that can not only perform authenticated and unauthenticated testing but also performance tuning for large-scale scans.

OpenVAS

This tool helps automate the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking charge of database servers.

SQLMap

NetStumbler supports Windows OS and is a wireless networking tool that uses 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g WLAN to detect wireless LANs.

NetStumbler