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Hacking Tools & software made hacking very easy as compare to old days. If you have a good set of hacking tools, it can save more energy and time. The main purpose to use hacking tools and software are for education and security awareness. Do not use hacking software against systems which do not have permission to attack or test. These tools are mainly made for pentester, researcher, security professionals for enlighten the security weaknesses. There are numerous Hacking Tools for PC/Windows available in the market. You see there are lots of paid, free and open source hacking software. It is difficult to pick up a right tool from the huge list. Here we have listed Top Best Hacking Software For Windows/PC. I recommend you first read documentation before proceeding to use these Hacking Tools and software.

Nmap- Network Mapper mostly works on all computer. It’s binary packages are available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is a free and open source tool for security auditing and network security. It is very useful for monitoring host or service time, managing service upgrade schedules and network inventory. It works fine on both single hosts and large networks for scan. With the classic command-line Nmap executable it also includes advanced GUI and results viewer, redirection and debugging tool, a packet generation and response analysis tool.

Metasploit is worlds most used penetration testing software. It helps to uncover weaknesses, improve security outcomes and focus on highest risks. It was free until it is acquired by Rapid7. It provides you advanced open source platform for testing, developing and using exploit codes. It helps you to find your weak points. So you can defence against the real world attacks. As a penetration tester you can find out different attacks which can be done on site. So before the attacker does, you can improve your security issues with metasploit.

Cain & Abel is mainly designed to use for ethical purposes. It is a password recovery tool and helps to recover any password for Microsoft operating systems. You can easily recover various kind of passwords by cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary, sniffing the network, cryptanalysis attacks and brute-force. Recording VoIP conversations, revealing password boxes, recovering network keys and uncovering cached password are the other methods to recover passwords. Cain & Abel can simply recover credentials and passwords from various sources. Before using this software please first read license agreement carefully then proceed further.

John the Ripper is free and Open Source software. It is a fast password breacher software. It is currently available for Windows, DOS, Unix, BeOS and OpenVMS. The main purpose of this software is to detect weak Unix passwords. There are several crypt password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems. It supports windows LM hashes and lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.

THC hydra is often used when you need to breach remote authentication with brute force attack. It helps you to perform fast dictionary attacks against more than 50 protocols. such as ftp, http, smb, telnet, several databases and much more. It is fast classic password breaching tool and alos helps you to breach network logon passwords. For increasing functionality of this hacking tool you can add modules which is a great feature about Hydra.

Burp Suite is another best testing software. It provides you an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. It has various tools which works together and support entire testing process. These tools helps you to find and exploit security vulnerabilities through testing process. Burp suite is very easy to use and contains numerous powerful features to help experienced testers with their work.

Nessus is a complete most popular vulnerability scanner developed by tenable network security. A limited free version is available for home network use. Otherwise it is a paid software. It was free and open source, but they removed free version in 2008 and close their source code. For easy cross linking between compliant security tools it uses common Vulnerabilities and Exposures architecture. It constantly updated, with more than 70,000 plugins. It provides you embedded scripting language so you can write your own plugins or understanding the existing ones.

OWASP Zed is another penetration testing tool in our list of best hacking tools. It mainly used for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is easy to use and designed for functional testers, for developers and wide range of security experience who are new in penetration testing. It has numerous powerful tools and automated scanners which helps you to find security vulnerabilities manually.

Aircrack-ng is a best wifi hacking tool. It is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security. It provide you various tools which helps you to breach WEP and WPA PSK security. It works fine on Linux, Windows, OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and eComStation 2. It has simple GUI which makes them to use easily. It includes many powerful tools including Monitoring, testing & Attacking: de-authentication, fake access points, replay attacks and others via packet injection.