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Hello friends, today we will discuss Top 10 Open Source Hacking Tools:
1. Nmap Security Scanner: Best tool use for port scanner. Nmap stands for Network Mapper and it is a security scanner, developed by Gordon Lyon, used to discover hosts and services on a computer network.
2. OSSEC: It is a open source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). It helps in log analysis, file integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. It runs on most of the operating systems.
3. OpenVAS: It is a software framework of several services and tools which helps in vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management.
4. Security Onion: It is a Ubuntu based distribution used for intrusion detection, network security monitoring, and log management. It contains many security tools.
5. Metasploit Framework: This tool helps security researcher to find security issues, verify vulnerability mitigations & manage security assessments.
6. OpenSSH: It helps in encrypting traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks.
7. Wireshark: It is a network protocol analyzer which helps in network troubleshooting, analysis of network protocol and understand traffic behavior.
8. Kali Linux: It is Linux based distribution which contains many open source tools which helps security analyst in Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing.
9. ZED Attack Proxy (ZAP): It is a Web Application Security Scanner developed by OWASP to find vulnerabilities.
10. SQLmap: It is an automated tool to find and exploit SQL injection flaws and take control of database servers