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Top 5 Ethical Hacking Tools | Ethical Hacking Tools And Uses

In this presentation on the Top 5 ethical hacking tools, we learn about the most essential ethical hacking tool and uses of each of them. We start by learning a little about what is ethical hacking and why it is currently in huge demand. Moving on, we have the different avenues of ethical hacking by which a penetration tester can audit systems and servers. <br><br><br>1. What Is Ethical Hacking?<br>2. Types of Ethical Hacking<br>3. Top 5 Tools for Ethical Hacking<br>4. Benefits of Ethical Hacking

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Top 5 Ethical Hacking Tools | Ethical Hacking Tools And Uses

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  1. Agenda For the Day What Is Ethical Hacking? Types of Ethical Hacking Top 5 Tools for Ethical Hacking Benefits of Ethical Hacking

  2. What Is Ethical Hacking?

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  4. What Is Ethical Hacking? • An authorized attempt to hack a system or machine, in order to gauge the security of the target and identify critical vulnerabilities • Conducted by white hat hackers, rarely grey-hat • Upon successful testing, report is submitted to the administrator of the system • Hackers need to be certified in penetrating testing courses like CEH & CompTIA Pentest+

  5. Types of Ethical Hacking

  6. Types of Ethical Hacking Personal Systems Web Servers Web Applications Wireless Hacking Social Engineering

  7. Top 5 Tools for Ethical Hacking

  8. #1 N-Map • Open source and free network scanner • Used during reconnaissance stage of hacking • Can discover hosts and services on a system by the responses received • Finds vulnerable ports and services on a network

  9. #2 Metasploit • Open source penetration testing tool written in Ruby • Has a database of public exploits and vulnerabilities • Can execute remote attacks after gaining root access • Can run full-fledged security vulnerability scans

  10. #3 Acunetix • Automated web application security testing tool • Checks for SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities • Very fast and scalable, can traverse entire webpage directory in short amount of time • Better alternative to SAST source code scanner tools

  11. #4 Airgeddon • Bash script used to hack wireless networks • Can launch denial of service(DoS) attacks on compromised networks • Uses network adapter in monitor mode to analyze traffic to capture network handshake • Supports community plugins & multi-band support

  12. #5 John the Ripper • Brute-force tool that cracks hashed passwords • Auto-detects the hash function and variant • Can use dictionary attacks with third party wordlists • Customizable cracker used to test encrypted passwords

  13. Honorary Mentions

  14. Benefits of Ethical Hacking

  15. Benefits of Ethical Hacking Discovering vulnerabilities as an attacker Applying solutions before real damage takes place Increasing reputation as an audited company

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