Hacking and Security Tools for Beginners and Elite - Complete Tool Kit

Here is this post I have listed out few of the frequently and widely used Tools used by Hackers of all levels.But one thing i would like to mention is that "Hackers make tool but tool do not make Hackers"If you depend more on tools then you cannot evolve as a hacker rather you will be surrounded by tools and dependent on them.

1.Password Cracking Tools

a) John the ripper-http://www.openwall.com/john/

b) THC hydra-http://www.thc.org/thc-hydra/

c) Brutus-http://www.hoobie.net/brutus/

d) L0PhtCrack-http://www.l0phtcrack.com/

e) SAMInside-http://insidepro.com

f) Cain and abel-http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

g) Pwdump-http://www.foofus.net/fizzgig/pwdump/

2.Pentesting Tools:

a) Metasploit framework- http://www.metasploit.com/

b) Canvas- http://www.immunitysec.com/products-canvas.shtml

3.Sql injector Tools

a) Sqlihelper

b) Havij

c) SQL Exploiter

4.Website Vulnerability Scanner

a) Acunetix- http://www.acunetix.com/

b) Rational appscan- http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/appscan/

5.Vulnerability Scanner

a) Nessus-http://www.nessus.org/

b) Retina-http://www.eeye.com/html/Products/Retina/index.html

c) Sara-http://www-arc.com/sara/

6.Port Scanner

a) Nmap- http://nmap.org/

b) Angry Ip scanner- http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/

c) Super Scan- http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/superscan.htm

7.Intrusion detection Tools

a) Snort-http://www.snort.org/

b) Sguil-http://sguil.sourceforge.net/

8.Live CDs

a) Ophcrack- http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

b) Backtrack- http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

c) Hiren’s boot cd- http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

d) Ultimate boot cd- http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

9.Wireless Tools

a) Wireshark- http://www.wireshark.org/

b) Kismet-http://www.kismetwireless.net/

c) Aircrack- http://www.aircrack-ng.org/

d) Netstumbler- http://www.stumbler.net/

10.Steganography Tools

A list of few "STEGANOGRAPHY TOOLS " free to DOWNLOAD.

11.IP Tracing Tools

a) Neo Trace- http://www.networkingfiles.com/neotrace/

b) Visual Trace-http://www.visualiptrace.com

12.Software Cracking Tools

a) Debuggers-OllyDbg,WinDbg

b) Unpackers-QUnpack

c) DisAssemblers-WIN32Dasm

d) Decompilers-Boomerang,Mocha,JAD

e) Hex Editors-Hexworkshop,Hview, HxDSetupEN

A list of few "REVERSE ENGINEERING" tools free to Download.