hacking tools:
these are some great tools for beginners and pros alike.
Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:
- Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
- Live capture and offline analysis
- Standard three-pane packet browser
- Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
- Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
- The most powerful display filters in the industry
- Rich VoIP analysis
- Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
- Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
- Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)
- Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
- Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
- Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text
Brutus one of the fastest, most flexible remote password crackers you can get your hands on - it's also free. It is available for Windows 9x, NT and 2000, there is no UN*X version available although it is a possibility at some point in the future. Brutus version AET2 is the current release and includes the following authentication types :
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 | HTTP (Basic Authentication) |
| HTTP (HTML Form/CGI) |
| POP3 |
| FTP |
| SMB |
| Telnet |
| Other types such as IMAP, NNTP, NetBus etc are freely downloadable from this site and simply imported into your copy of Brutus. You can create your own types or use other peoples. |
The current release includes the following functionality :
| Multi-stage authentication engine |
| 60 simultaneous target connections |
| No username, single username and multiple username modes |
| Password list, combo (user/password) list and configurable brute force modes |
| Highly customisable authentication sequences |
| Load and resume position |
| Import and Export custom authentication types as BAD files seamlessly |
| SOCKS proxy support for all authentication types |
| User and password list generation and manipulation functionality |
| HTML Form interpretation for HTML Form/CGI authentication types |
| Error handling and recovery capability inc. resume after crash/failure. |
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