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A hacker is a highly skilled computer operator who uses bugs and exploits to break into computer systems and networks. An ethical hacker, on the other hand, identifies vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks, and plugs these holes. Here's a round-up of the ten best operating systems for ethical hackers and penetration testers.
Hacking has been part of computing for over five decades and is a very broad area, covering a range of tasks. The term hacker originated in 1960 at MIT. Hacking is regarded as a process of locating all possible back doors that exist in a computer system or network and, finally, intruding into it. In simple terms, it is regarded as an unauthorised activity to gain access to a computer system or network, to harm it or prevent its normal functions and to steal sensitive information available on computing systems.

On the other hand, hacking can also be a legal activity when it is used to discover back doors and weaknesses in computer systems in order to patch them. This is called ethical hacking.

In today's cyber world, lots of varied attacks occur every hour and are achieved by professional hackers, virus writers and crackers. The most basic tool required by every hacker is a hacking operating system. Usually, the operating systems specialising in hacking are based on the Linux kernel. These operating systems are regarded as advanced working systems, which include lots of ethical hacking and penetration testing tools.

In this article, the ten best operating systems used by ethical hackers and penetration testers are featured. All of them are free, open source, are based on the Linux kernel and are bundled with many hacking tools.

1. Kali Linux
Kali Linux is based on the Debian-Linux distribution, and is especially designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It is maintained and updated on a regular basis by Offensive Security Ltd, under the leadership of Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns and Raphael Hertzog who are core developers. Kali comes pre-installed with more than 300 penetration testing programs and can be installed as a primary operating system on the hard disk, live CD/USB and can even run as a virtual machine using some virtualisation software.

Kali Linux supports both 32-bit and 64-bit images for use with x86 machines, and even supports various development boards like Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Odroid, CuBox, etc.

Information gathering: These tools are used to gather information regarding DNS, IDS/IPS, network scanning, operating system, routing, SSL, SMB, VPN, VOPI, SNMP, email and VPN.

Vulnerability assessment: These tools access the CISCO network and discover vulnerabilities in several database servers.

Web applications: These tools are related to Web applications like content management systems, database exploitation, application proxies, Web vulnerability scanners, etc.

Password attacks: These tools perform password attacks via brute force, dictionary attacks, etc.

Exploitation tools: These exploit vulnerabilities in target systems for networks, the Web and databases, and to perform social engineering attacks.

Sniffing and spoofing: These tools sniff the network and Web traffic.

Maintaining access: These tools maintain access to the target machine, to assess operating system back doors and for tunnelling.

Reporting tools: These document the penetration testing process.

System services: These tools contain various pen-testing services like Apache, MySQL, SSH and Metasploit services.

Kali Linux is bundled with several tools that perform wireless attacks, reverse engineering, stress testing, hardware hacking and forensics.

Bundled with more than 600 penetration testing tools as compared to Backtrack OS.

Completely free and open source and committed to GitHub, with the source code of each package being available.

Kali Linux is FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) compliant to locate binaries, and support files and libraries.

Kali Linux offers a custom kernel for customised coding and patching up the latest updates.

Every package in it is GPG signed and, hence, committed to high quality standards by developers.

ARMEL and ARMHF support allows Kali Linux to be installed on various other devices like Pi, Odroid, Chromebook, etc.

Latest version: Kali Linux 2016.2 (32-bit/64-bit)

2. BackBox
BackBox is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution aimed at assisting ethical hackers and penetration testers in security assessments. BackBox OS is designed with the objective of being faster, easily operable and having a minimal desktop environment. The key advantage of BackBox is that its own software repositories are updated at regular intervals to keep the distribution stable and popular for real-world operations.
The BackBox distribution consists of more than 70 tools for tasks ranging from Web analysis and network analysis to stress testing, sniffing, vulnerability assessment, forensics and exploitation.

BackBox Linux is one of the first platforms supporting the cloud for penetration testing.

It is fully automated and non-intrusive, with no agents or network configuration changes required to achieve regular automated configuration backups.

Saves time and eliminates the requirement of tracking individual network devices.

With support of the XFCE desktop, BackBox is regarded as fast in operations and suitable even for old configuration systems.

Completely hacker friendly due to the support it receives for creating its own Launchpad PPA and sending the package to developers who, in turn, contribute instantly to BackBox Linux.

Latest version: 4.7

3. Parrot Security Operating System
Parrot Security OS is based on Debian GNU/Linux combined with the Frozenbox OS and Kali Linux to provide ethical hackers the best-in-class experience of penetration and security testing in real-world environments. It is also designed to provide vulnerability assessment and mitigation, computer forensics and anonymous Web browsing, by the Frozenbox team.
Parrot Security OS makes use of Kali repositories for all sorts of package updates and to integrate new tools. It makes use of the MATE desktop environment using the LightDM display manager to provide an easy-to-use GUI and lightweight environment for computer system analysts to perform all sorts of forensics, vulnerability assessment and cryptography. This OS is known for being highly customisable and for its strong community support.

Equipped with the highly customisable kernel version 4.5, it is currently under rolling release upgrade line and based on Debian 9.

Has custom anti-forensic tools, interfaces for GPG, Cryptsetup, and support for LUKS, Truecrypt and VeraCrypt.

It supports FALCON 1.0 programming language, multiple compilers, debuggers and the Qt5 and .NET/mono frameworks.

Supports Anonsurf including anonymisation of the entire OS, TOR, I2P anonymous networks and beyond.

A special edition of Parrot Cloud, designed for servers, comprises lightweight Parrot OS distributions without graphics, wireless and forensics tools, and acts as a VPS or dedicated server with only useful security tools.

Latest version: 3.3

4. DEFT Linux
DEFT (Digital Evidence and Forensics Toolkit) is based on GNU Linux and DART (Digital Advanced Response Toolkit), a forensics system comprising some of the best tools for forensics and incident response. DEFT Linux is especially designed for carrying out forensics tasks and runs live on systems without tampering with the hard disk or any other storage media. It consists of more than 100 highly-rated forensics and hacking tools.
It is currently developed and maintained by Stefano Fratepietro along with other developers, and is available free of charge. It is used actively by ethical hackers, pen testers, government officers, IT auditors and even the military for carrying out various forensics based systems analysis.

It is based on the Lubuntu distribution comprising open source digital forensics and penetration testing tools.

Full support for Bitlocker encrypted disks, Android and iOS 7.1 logical acquisitions.

Consists of Digital Forensics Framework 1.3.

Latest version: 8.2

5.Samurai Web Testing Framework
Samurai Web Testing Framework primarily focuses on testing the security of Web applications and comprises lots of Web assessment and exploitation tools. The credit for developing the Samurai Web Testing Framework goes to Kevin Johnson, Justin Searle and Frank DiMaggio. The Samurai Framework provides ethical hackers and pen testers with a live Linux environment that is preconfigured to run as a virtual machine to perform Web penetration testing.
The Samurai Web Testing Framework includes popular testing tools like Fierce Domain Scanner and Maltego for Reconnaissance, WebScarab and Ratproxy for mapping, w3af and Burp for discovery, and BeEF and AJAXShell for exploitation.
The framework is based on Ubuntu 9.04, is fully open source and receives regular updates with regard to products.

Contains many tools for reconnaissance, mapping, discovery and exploitation, especially focusing on Web penetration testing.

Equipped with SVN to provide updated security tools, and syncs with active development tools.

Latest version: 3.3.2

6. Network Security Toolkit
The Network Security Toolkit (NST), based on Fedora, is a live bootable DVD/USB Flash drive consisting of the top 125 open source security tools provided by insecure.org to perform network security, penetration testing, network diagnostics and monitoring of day-to-day tasks. The main objective behind the development of NST is to provide network/systems administrators a combined set of open source security tools to carry out operations like network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, network scanning and security patching.
NST has been developed by Ronald W. Henderson and Paul Blankenbaker. It provides a Web interface known as NST WUI and all the tools can be accessed via the Web page. NST is equipped with intelligent package management capabilities based on Fedora and maintains its own repositories of additional packages.

Provides visualisation of ntopng, ntop, Wireshark, traceroute, NetFlow and Kismet data.

JavaScript console with built-in object library helps in the development of dynamic Web pages.

Other features include network intrusion detection, Web-based Snort IDS integration, active connections monitor, VNC/RDP desktop session management, host/IPv4 address geolocation and network segment ARP scanner.

Latest version: 24-7977 Release.

7. BlackArch Linux
BlackArch is an Arch Linux-based security and penetration testing distribution, which consists of more than 1600 tools and is regarded as the first choice distribution among security researchers to do Web and applications based security testing. It is a strong alternative to Kali Linux and Backbox in terms of the variety of its tools and ease of use.
BlackArch is basically a lightweight extension to Arch Linux for security researchers, as the tool set within the former is distributed as the Arch Linux unofficial user repository and can even be installed on top of existing Arch Linux.
Arch Linux can be installed on 32-bit and 64-bit machines including ARM based development boards like Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, etc.

GUI interface is powered by Fluxbox and includes i3, WMii, Spectrwm, Awesome, dwm and Openbox window managers.

Has modular package groups.

Installation can be performed from source.

Latest version: 2016.12.29

8. Cyborg Hawk Linux
Cyborg Hawk Linux is regarded as the most advanced, powerful and well-managed Ubuntu based penetration testing Linux distribution created by Ztrela Knowledge Solutions Pvt Ltd. The distribution consists of more than 700 tools dedicated to penetration testing, and more than 300 tools for mobile security and malware analysis.
Cyborg Hawk Linux is completely open source and free to use, and the latest version comes with its own repository. The distribution is highly reliable and stable in the eyes of ethical hackers and pen testers for real-world stress testing of networks, malware analysis and finding out back doors.

Full support for wireless devices.

Can be installed as a virtual machine.

Managed and well-sorted menus in the distribution.

Bundles tools for exploitation, stress testing, reverse engineering, forensics, mobile security and wireless security.

Secured and well patched kernel.

Has full capability to run as Live OS.

Latest version: Version 1.1

9. GnackTrack
GnackTrack is an Ubuntu based penetration testing Linux distribution which includes lots of utilities for penetration testing. It has a GUI based GNOME desktop for easy interfacing. GnackTrack is an open source and free project, and contains various significant penetration testing tools like Metaspoilt, Armitage, wa3f and many more.

Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms for installation and running live OSs.

Standard boot menu for booting up live DVD OS.

Inspired by Backtrack and the most useful choice for starters to learn and research penetration testing.

Latest version: Version R6

10. NodeZero
NodeZero is an open source Ubuntu based penetration testing Linux distro, which makes use of Ubuntu repositories for updates. It consists of more than 300 penetration testing tools as well as a set of basic services that are required for carrying out all sorts of operations. The Linux distribution is available for download as a dual-arch live DVD ISO image, and can run on both 32-bit and 64-bit computing architectures.

The live OS supports various other features like system memory diagnostic tests, hard disk booting, install direct, safe mode booting, text mode or debug mode.

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What are Hacking Tools?

Hacking Tools are computer programs and scripts that help you find and exploit weaknesses in computer systems, web applications, servers and networks. There is a variety of such tools available on the market. Some of them are open source while others are commercial solution.

In this list we highlight the top 20 tools for Ethical Hacking of web applications, servers and networks

1) Netsparker

Netsparker is an easy to use web application security scanner that can automatically find SQL Injection, XSS and other vulnerabilities in your web applications and web services. It is available as on-premises and SAAS solution.
Features

Dead accurate vulnerability detection with the unique Proof-Based Scanning Technology.

Minimal configuration required. Scanner automatically detects URL rewrite rules, custom 404 error pages.

REST API for seamless integration with the SDLC, bug tracking systems etc.

Fully scalable solution. Scan 1,000 web applications in just 24 hours.

Download a demo or launch an online scan trial to scan your website for vulnerabilities now.

2) Acunetix WVS:

Acunetix is the leading web vulnerability scanner. This widely acclaimed tool offers the most advanced SQL Injection and XSS black box scanning technology.
Features:

Inbuilt vulnerability management helps users to prioritize and manage vulnerability resolution

Acunetix comes with a Login Sequence Recorder that allows one to access the password protected areas of web sites.

Fuzz test validation and handling of invalid data

The new AcuSensor technology lets users reduce the false positive rate

Automatic Web Application Firewall configuration

Easily retrieve and execute actions

Seamlessly integrate into complex, custom workflows and processes

Download link: https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/download/

3) Burp Suite:

Burp Suite is a useful platform for performing Security Testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire pen testing process. It spans from initial mapping to analysis of an application's attack surface.
Features:
It can detect over 3000 web application vulnerabilities.

Scan open-source software and custom-built applications

An easy to use Login Sequence Recorder allows the automatic scanning

Review vulnerability data with built-in vulnerability management.

Easily provide wide variety of technical and compliance reports

Detects Critical Vulnerabilities with 100% Accuracy

Automated crawl and scan

Advanced scanning feature for manual testers

Cutting-edge scanning logic

Download link: https://portswigger.net/burp/freedownload

4) Ettercap:

Ettercap is an ethical hacking tool. It supports active and passive dissection includes features for network and host analysis.
Features: Download link: https://ettercap.github.io/ettercap/downloads.html
5) Aircrack:
Features:
Aircrack is a trustable ethical hacking tool. It cracks vulnerable wireless connections. It is powered by WEP WPA and WPA 2 encryption Keys.

Download link: https://www.aircrack-ng.org/downloads.html

6) Angry IP Scanner:
Features:
Angry IP Scanner is open-source and cross-platform ethical hacking tool. It scans IP addresses and ports.
Download link: http://angryip.org/download/#windows

Scans local networks as well as the Internet

Free and open-source tool

Random or file in any format

Exports results into many formats

Extensible with many data fetchers

Provides command-line interface

Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux

No need for Installation

Features: Download link: https://www.gfi.com/products-and-solutions/network-security-solutions/gfi-languard/download Features:
7) GFI LanGuard:

GFI LanGuard is an ethical tool that scan networks for vulnerabilities. It can acts as your 'virtual security consultant' on demand. It allows creating an asset inventory of every device.

8) Savvius:

Powerful, easy-to-use network forensics software

Savvius automates the capture of the network data required to quickly investigate security alerts

Software and integrated appliance solutions

Packet intelligence combines deep analysis

Rapid resolution of network and security issues

Easy to use Intuitive workflow

Expert and responsive technical support

Onsite deployment for appliances

Commitment to our customers and our products

Features:
Download link: https://www.savvius.com/distributed_network_analysis_suite_trial

9) QualysGuard:

Qualys guard helps businesses streamline their security and compliance solutions. It also builds security into their digital transformation initiatives. This tool can also check the performance vulnerability of the online cloud systems.

It is trusted globally

No hardware to buy or manage

It is a scalable, end-to-end solution for all aspects of IT security

Vulnerability data securely stored and processed on an n-tiered architecture of load-balanced servers

It sensor provides continuous visibility

Data analyzed in real time

It can respond to threats in a real-time

Features:
Download link: https://www.qualys.com/forms/freescan/

10) WebInspect:

WebInspect is automated dynamic application security testing that allows performing ethical hacking techniques. It provides comprehensive dynamic analysis of complex web applications and services.

Allows to test dynamic behavior of running web applications to identify security vulnerabilities

Keep in control of your scan by getting relevant information and statistics at a glance

Centralized Program Management

Advanced technologies, such as simultaneous crawl professional-level testing to novice security testers

Easily inform management on vulnerability trending, compliance management, and risk oversight

Features:
Download link: https://saas.hpe.com/en-us/software/webinspect

11) Hashcat:

Hashcat is a robust password cracking ethical hacking tool. It can help users to recover lost passwords, audit password security, or just find out what data is stored in a hash.

Open-Source platform

Multi-Platform Support

Allows utilizing multiple devices in the same system

Utilizing mixed device types in the same system

It supports distributed cracking networks

Supports interactive pause/resume

Supports sessions and restore

Built-in benchmarking system

Integrated thermal watchdog

Supports automatic performance tuning

Features:
Download link: https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

12) L0phtCrack:

L0phtCrack 6 is useful password audit and recovery tool. It identifies and assesses password vulnerability over local machines and networks.
Features:
Download link: http://www.l0phtcrack.com/#download-form

13) Rainbow Crack:

RainbowCrack is a password cracking tool widely used for ethical hacking. It cracks hashes with rainbow tables. It uses time-memory tradeoff algorithm for this purpose.

Full time-memory trade-off tool suites, including rainbow table generation

It Support rainbow table of any hash algorithm

Support rainbow table of any charset

Support rainbow table in raw file format (.rt) and compact file format

Computation on multi-core processor support

GPU acceleration with multiple GPUs

Runs on Windows OS and Linux

Unified rainbow table file format on every supported OS

Command line user interface

Graphics user interface

Features:
Download link: http://project-rainbowcrack.com/index.htm

14) IKECrack:

IKECrack is an open source authentication crack tool. This ethical hacking tool is designed to brute-force or dictionary attack. This tool also allows performing cryptography tasks.

IKECrack is a tool that allows performing Cryptography tasks

Initiating client sends encryption options proposal, DH public key, random number, and an ID in an unencrypted packet to the gateway/responder.

It is freely available for both personal and commercial use. Therefore, it is perfect choice for user who wants an option for Cryptography programs

Features:
Download link: http://ikecrack.sourceforge.net/

15) IronWASP:

IronWASP is an open source software for ethical hacking too. It is web application vulnerability testing. It is designed to be customizable so that users can create their custom security scanners using it.

GUI based and very easy to use

It has powerful and effective scanning engine

Supports for recording Login sequence

Reporting in both HTML and RTF formats

Checks for over 25 types of web vulnerabilities

False Positives and Negatives detection support

It supports Python and Ruby

Extensible using plug-ins or modules in Python, Ruby, C# or VB.NET

Features: Download link: http://foofus.net/goons/jmk/medusa/medusa.html
Download link: http://ironwasp.org/download.html
Features:
16) Medusa
Download link: http://www.stumbler.net/
Medusa is one of the best online brute-force, speedy, parallel password crackers ethical hacking tool. This tool is also widely used for ethical hacking.

17) NetStumbler

NetStumbler is used to detect wireless networks on the Windows platform.

Verifying network configurations

Finding locations with poor coverage in a WLAN

Detecting causes of wireless interference

Detecting unauthorized ("rogue") access points

Aiming directional antennas for long-haul WLAN links

18) SQLMap

SQLMap automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL Injection weaknesses. It is open source and cross platform. It supports the following database engines.

It supports the following SQL Injection Techniques;

Boolean-based blind

Time-based blind

Error-based

UNION query

Stacked queries and out-of-band.

Download link: http://sqlmap.org/

19) Cain & Abel

Cain & Abel is a Microsoft Operating System passwords recovery tool. It is used to -

Recover MS Access passwords

Uncover password field

Sniffing networks

Cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary attacks, brute-force, and cryptanalysis attacks.

Download link: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Decrypting-Decoding/Cain-and-Abel.shtml

20) Nessus

Nessus can be used to perform;

Remote vulnerability scanner

Password dictionary attacks

Denial of service attacks.

It is closed source, cross platform and free for personal use.

Download link: http://www.tenable.com/products/nessus-vulnerability-scanner

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Find out most advanced Operating Systems for hacking - if you are really interested in Hacking, then this article will help you to known Which Operating systems are used by hackers.

Almost all the best operating systems for hacking is based on Linux kernel, so favorite operating systems of hackers are always Linux. In this article we are listing some open source hacking operating systems for ethical hacking and penetration testing.

A hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, challenge, enjoyment or to evaluate those weaknesses to assist in removing them. Hacking is a type of art, And now you can also start your journey to hacking world with the help of these hacking OS.

Favourite Operating Systems Of Hackers :

So check out 22 best Linux distro for ethical hacking and penetration testing :

1. Kali Linux
Also Read : A-Z Kali Linux Commands
Kali Linux maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd. is first in our list. Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. Kali is the one of the best and favourite operating systems of hackers.

It was developed by Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns of Offensive Security through the rewrite of BackTrack, their previous forensics Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Kali Linux has a dedicated project set-aside for compatibility and porting to specific Android devices, called Kali Linux NetHunter. It is the first Open Source Android penetration testing platform for Nexus devices, created as a joint effort between the Kali community member "BinkyBear" and Offensive Security. It supports Wireless 802.11 frame injection, one-click MANA Evil Access Point setups, HID keyboard (Teensy like attacks), as well as Bad USB MITM attacks.

Features : BackTrack (Kali's predecessor) contained a mode known as forensic mode. This capability was carried over to Kali via live boot. This mode is very popular for many reasons such as many Kali users already have a bootable Kali USB drive or CD, and this option makes it easy to apply Kali to a forensic job. There are however some changes to forensic mode over the regular operation of the system, such as forensic mode doesn't touch the hard drive or swap space and auto mounting is disabled. However, it is recommended by the developers that if Kali is going to be used for real world forensics that these things be tested in that environment.

Supported Platforms : Kali Linux is distributed in 32- and 64-bit images for use on hosts based on the x86 instruction set and as an image for the ARM architecture for use on the BeagleBoard computer and on Samsung's ARM Chromebook. Kali Linux is already available for BeagleBone Black, HP Chromebook, CubieBoard 2, CuBox, CuBox-i, Raspberry Pi, EfikaMX, Odroid U2, Odroid XU, Odroid XU3, Samsung Chromebook, Utilite Pro, Galaxy Note 10.1 and SS808.
Get Kali Linux From Official Website Also Read : How To Dual Boot Kali Linux v2.0 With Windows 10
2. BackBox

BackBox is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution penetration test and security assessment oriented providing a network and informatic systems analysis toolkit. BackBox desktop environment includes a complete set of tools required for ethical hacking and security testing.

Features : It includes some of the most used security and analysis Linux tools, aiming for a wide spread of goals, ranging from web application analysis to network analysis, from stress tests to sniffing, also including vulnerability assessment, computer forensic analysis and exploitation. Part of the power of this distribution comes from its Launchpad repository core, constantly updated to the latest stable version of the most known and used ethical hacking tools. The integration and development of new tools in the distribution follows the open source community, particularly the Debian Free Software Guidelines criteria.
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3. Parrot Security OS

Parrot Security OS (or ParrotSec) is a GNU/LINUX distribution based on Debian. It was built in order to perform penetration tests (computer security), Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation, Computer Forensics and Anonymous Surfing. It has been developed by Frozenbox's Team. Like Kali Linux Parrot Security OS is also hackers favourite operating system.
Also Read : A-Z Bash Command Line for Linux
Parrot is based on Debian's stable branch (jessie), with a custom hardened linux 4.1 kernel with a grsecurity patched branch available. It follows a development line of rolling release kind.The desktop environment is MATE, fork of Gnome 2, and the default display manager is LightDM.The project is certified to run over machines which have 265Mb of RAM at least and it is suitable to both 32bit (i386) and 64bit (amd64), with a special edition it works on old 32bit machines (486). Moreover, the project is available for armel and armhf architectures. It even offers an edition (both 32bit and 64bit) developed for servers only to carry out cloud pentesting.

Features : Parrot Security OS is a security oriented operating system designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, privacy/anonymity and cryptography.
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4. Live Hacking OS

Live Hacking OS is a Linux distribution packed with tools and utilities for ethical hacking, penetration testing and countermeasure verification. It includes the graphical user interface GNOME inbuilt. There is a second variation available which has command line only, and it requires very less hardware requirements.
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5. DEFT Linux

DEFT stands for Digital Evidence and Forensic Toolkit and it's an open source distribution of Linux built around the DART (Digital Advanced Response Toolkit) software and based on the Ubuntu operating system. It has been designed from the ground up to offer some of the best open source computer forensics and incident response tools that can be used by individuals, IT auditors, investigators, military, and police.
Get DEFT Linux From Official Website Also Read: Best Documentaries About Hacking And Hackers You Should Watch
6. Samurai Web Testing Framework

The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. In developing this environment, we have based our tool selection on the tools we use in our security practice. We have included the tools used in all four steps of a web pen-test.
Get Samurai Web Testing Framework From Official Website
7. Network Security Toolkit

The Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a Linux-based Live CD that provides a set of open source computer security and networking tools to perform routine security and networking diagnostic and monitoring tasks. The distribution can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on servers hosting virtual machines. The majority of tools published in the article "Top 125 security tools" by Insecure.org are available in the toolkit. NST has package management capabilities similar to Fedora and maintains its own repository of additional packages.

Features : Many tasks that can be performed within NST are available through a web interface called NST WUI. Among the tools that can be used through this interface are nmap with the vizualization tool ZenMap, ntop, a Network Interface Bandwidth Monitor, a Network Segment ARP Scanner, a session manager for VNC, a minicom-based terminal server, serial port monitoring, and WPA PSK management.Other features include visualization of ntopng, ntop, wireshark, traceroute, netflow and kismet data by geolocating the host addresses, IPv4 Address conversation, traceroute data and wireless access points and displaying them via Google Earth or a Mercator World Map bit image, a browser-based packet capture and protocol analysis system capable of monitoring up to four network interfaces using Wireshark, as well as a Snort-based intrusion detection system with a "collector" backend that stores incidents in a MySQL database. For web developers, there is also a JavaScript console with a built-in object library with functions that aid the development of dynamic web pages.
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8. Bugtraq

Bugtraq is an electronic mailing list dedicated to issues about computer security. On-topic issues are new discussions about vulnerabilities, vendor security-related announcements, methods of exploitation, and how to fix them. It is a high-volume mailing list, and almost all new vulnerabilities are discussed there.Bugtraq team is experienced freaks and developers, It is available in Debian, Ubuntu and OpenSuSe in 32 and 64 bit architectures.
Get Bugtraq From Official Website
9. NodeZero

NodeZero is an open source Linux kernel-based operating system derived from the world's most popular distribution of Linux, Ubuntu, and designed to be used for penetration testing operations. The distro is available for download as a dual-arch Live DVD ISO image, which will run well on computers that support both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) instruction set architectures. Besides the fact that it allows you to start the live system, the boot menu contains various advanced options, such as the ability to perform a system memory diagnostic test, boot from a local drive, start the installer directly, as well as to boot in safe graphics mode, text mode or debug mode.

NodeZero's default graphical desktop environment is powered by GNOME, which uses the GNOME Classic interface. It features a two-panel layout, and uses Ubuntu's default software repositories. Keep in mind though, that you must first log into the live session with the username nodezero and without a password.With NodeZero you will have instant access to over 300 penetration testing tools, as well as a set of basic services that are needed in penetration testing operations. Default applications include the Mozilla Firefox web browser, F-Spot photo manager, Rhythmbox music player, PiTiVi video editor, Transmission torrent downloader, Empathy multi-protocol instant messenger, and OpenOffice.org office suite.
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10. Pentoo

Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based on Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64 bit installable livecd. Pentoo is also available as an overlay for an existing Gentoo installation. It features packet injection patched wifi drivers, GPGPU cracking software, and lots of tools for penetration testing and security assessment. The Pentoo kernel includes grsecurity and PAX hardening and extra patches - with binaries compiled from a hardened toolchain with the latest nightly versions of some tools available.
Get Pentoo from Official Website Also Read : How To Uninstall Linux Or Windows From Dual Boot System
11. BlackBuntu

BlackBuntu is distribution for penetration testing which was specially designed for security training students and practitioners of information security. BlackBuntu is penetration testing distribution with GNOME Desktop Environment. It's currently being built using the Ubuntu 10.10 and work on reference BackTrack.
Get BlackBuntu From Official Website
12. GnackTrack

GnackTrack is an open and free project to merge penetration testing tools and the linux Gnome desktop. GnackTrack is a Live and comes with multiple tools that are really helpful to do a effective penetration testing, it has Metasploit, armitage, wa3f and others wonderful tools.
Get GnackTrack From Official Website
13. Cyborg Hawk Linux
Also Read : The best Linux distro for beginners
CYBORG HAWK LINUX is a Ubuntu (Linux) based Penetration Testing Distro created by the team of Ztrela Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Developed and designed for ethical hackers and cyber security experts who are also known as Penetration testers . Cyborg Hawk Penetration Testing Distro can be used for network security and assessment and also for digital forensics. It has various tools also fit for the Mobile Security and Wireless testing. It has 700 + tools while other penetration distro have 300+ and also dedicated tools for and menu for mobile security and malware analysis . Also it is easy to compare it with others as to make a better OS than others ,we have to outperform them.
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14. Knoppix STD

STD is a Linux-based Security Tool. Actually, it is a collection of hundreds if not thousands of open source security tools. It's a Live Linux Distro, which means it runs from a bootable CD in memory without changing the native operating system of the host computer. Its sole purpose in life is to put as many security tools at your disposal with as slick an interface as it can.STD is meant to be used by both novice and professional security personnel but is not ideal for the Linux uninitiated. STD assumes you know the basics of Linux as most of your work will be done from the command line. If you are completely new to Linux, it's best you start with another live Distro like Knoppix to practice the basics.STD tools are divided into the following categories authentication, encryption, forensics, firewall, honeypot, ids, network utilities, password tools, servers, packet sniffers, tcp tools, tunnels, vulnerability assessment, wireless tools.
Get Knoppix STD From Official Website
15. Weakerthan

Weakerthan is a penetration testing distribution which is built from Debian Squeeze.For the desktop environment it uses Fluxbox.This operating system is ideal for WiFi hacking as it contains plenty of Wireless tools. It has a very well maintained website and a devoted community. Built from Debian Squeeze (Fluxbox within a desktop environment) this operating system is particularly suited for WiFi hacking as it contains plenty of Wireless cracking and hacking tools.Tools includes: Wifi attacks, SQL Hacking, Cisco Exploitation, Password Cracking, Web Hacking, Bluetooth, VoIP Hacking, Social Engineering, Information Gathering, Fuzzing Android Hacking, Networking and creating Shells.
Get Weakerthan From Official Website
16. BlackArch Linux

BlackArch Linux -an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The new version also has a total of 1400 penetration testing tools with the old ones updated and the new ones added, making it a must have download for hackers and security researchers.
Get BlackArch Linux From Official Website
17. Matriux Linux

Matriux Linux - a Debian-based security distribution designed for penetration testing and forensic investigations. Although suited best for hackers, it can also be used by any Linux user as a desktop system for day-to-day computing. Matriux has more than 300 open source tools for penetration testing and hacking. Since its the new one, many security researchers claims that it is a better alternative to Kali Linux.
Get Matriux Linux From Official Website
18. Dracos Linux

Dracos Linux - ethical hacking os surfaced from Indonesia built based on the Linux from scratch.

Dracos is built to be fast, strong, and powerful OS which is used to perform security testing (penetration testing). Powered by hundreds of pentest tools including information gathering, forensics, malware analysis, maintaining access, and reverse engineering, Dracos Linux is one of the best choices of hacker's operating system.
Get Dracos Linux From Official Website
19. Fedora Security Lab

Fedora Security Lab comes with the clean and fast Xfce Desktop Environment and essential set of tools like - Wireshark, Sqlninja, Yersinia, Medusa etc - to follow a proper test path for security and pen testing. Fedora Security Lab is maintained by a community of security testers and developers.
Get Fedora Security Lab From Official Website
20. Caine

Caine - Computer Aided Investigation Environment - is an Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux live distribution OS created for ethical hackers and digital forensics experts. It provides a complete forensic environment with a friendly graphical interface.
Get Caine From Official Website
21. ArchStrike

ArchStrike is the perfect Arch Linux based hacking operating system for security experts. ArchStrike provides a live desktop environment based on the Openbox window manager along with an extra repository of security software of 32-bit and 64-bit builds.
Get ArchStrike From Official Website
22. URIX OS

URIX OS is a security-focused ethical hacking distribution based on openSUSE. In URIX OS security is strengthened by removing servers and closing incoming ports. The distro also provides several penetration tools for testing purposes.
Get URIX OS From Official Website
That's all!! If you think we forget to add some other favourite operating systems of hackers please comment below. And also soon we will add more hackers operating systems to the list.

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Here is the list of top best ethical hacking tools 2018 for Windows PC, Linux system and MAC OS. These are the must have tools for every hacker required for different purposes. All these hacking tools 2018 provided here are effective and free of cost.

Hacking tools that are developed by some best coders are already out there to ease out many complex tasks which have to be done automatically & manually. We have compiled this list of top hacking tools of 2018 with their description & download links.

Also Read: Best Android Hacking Apps 2018

Top Best Hacking Tools Of 2018 For Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

All these hacking tools 2018 provided here are effective and free of cost. We have published this article just for educational purposes, and we don't promote the malicious practices. Here are Best Hacking Books of 2018.
Here are the Top Best Ethical Hacking Tools 2018:
Metasploit is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. Rather than calling Metasploit a collection of exploit tools, I'll call it an infrastructure that you can utilize to build your custom tools. This free tool is one of the most popular cyber security tools around that allows you to locate vulnerabilities at different platforms. Metasploit is backed by more than 200,000 users and contributors that help you to get insights and uncover the weaknesses in your system.

This top hacking tool package of 2018 lets you simulate real-world attacks to tell you about the weak points and finds them. As a penetration tester, it pinpoints the vulnerabilities with Nexpose closed-loop integration using Top Remediation reports. Using the open-source Metasploit framework, users can build their tools and take the best out of this multi-purpose hacking tool.

Nmap is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. I think everyone has heard of this one, Nmap (Network Mapper) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to Nmap rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It may be used to discover computers and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network. Nmap runs on most types of computers, and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is a fee and open source tool that can be used by beginners (-sT) or by pros alike (packet_trace). A very versatile tool, once you fully understand the results.

Acunetix is available for Windows XP and higher. Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner (WVS) that scans and finds out the flaws in a website that could prove fatal. This multi-threaded tool crawls a website and finds out malicious Cross-site Scripting, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. This fast and easy to use tool scans WordPress websites from more than 1200 vulnerabilities in WordPress.

Acunetix comes with a Login Sequence Recorder that allows one to access the password protected areas of web sites. The new AcuSensor technology used in this tool allows you to reduce the false positive rate. Such features have made Acunetix WVS a preferred hacking tools that you need to check out in 2018.

This free and open source tool was originally named Ethereal. Wireshark also comes in a command-line version called TShark. This GTK+-based network protocol analyzer runs with ease on Linux, Windows, and OS X. Wireshark is a GTK+-based Wireshark network protocol analyzer or sniffer, that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. Works great on both Linux and Windows (with a GUI), easy to use and can reconstruct TCP/IP Streams.

Also Read: Top 15 Best Hacking Tools For Linux

This useful hacking tool can be downloaded in different versions for Linux, OSX, and Windows. If password cracking is something you do on a daily basis, you might be aware of the free password cracking tool Hashcat. While Hashcat is a CPU-based password cracking tool, oclHashcat is its advanced version that uses the power of your GPU.

oclHashcat calls itself world's fastest password cracking tool with world's first and only GPGPU based engine. For using the tool, NVIDIA users require ForceWare 346.59 or later, and AMD users require Catalyst 15.7 or later.
This tool employs following attack modes for cracking:

Straight

Combination

Brute-force

Hybrid Dictionary + mask

Hybrid mask + dictionary

Mentioning another major feature, oclHashcat is an open source tool under MIT license that allows an easy integration or packaging of the common Linux distros.

Nessus is supported by a variety of platforms including Windows 7 and 8, Mac OS X, and popular Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Kali Linux etc. This top free hacking tool of 2018 works with the help of a client-server framework. Developed by Tenable Network Security, the tool is one of the most popular vulnerability scanners we have. Nessus serves different purposes to different types of users - Nessus Home, Nessus Professional, Nessus Manager and Nessus Cloud.

Using Nessus, one can scan multiple types of vulnerabilities that include remote access flaw detection, misconfiguration alert, denial of services against TCP/IP stack, preparation of PCI DSS audits, malware detection, sensitive data searches etc. To launch a dictionary attack, Nessus can also call a popular tool Hydra externally.

Apart from the above mentioned basic functionalities, Nessus could be used to scan multiple networks on IPv4, IPv6, and hybrid networks. You can set the scheduled scan to run at your chosen time and re-scan all or a subsection of previously scanned hosts using selective host re-scanning.

Maltego hacking tool is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Maltego is an open source forensics platform that offers rigorous mining and information gathering to paint a picture of cyber threats around you. Maltego excels in showing the complexity and severity of points of failure in your infrastructure and the surrounding environment.

Maltego is a great hacker tool that analyzes the real world links between people, companies, websites, domains, DNS names, IP addresses, documents and whatnot. Based on Java, this tool runs in an easy-to-use graphical interface with lost customization options while scanning.

Also Read: Top 5+ Best CMD Commands Used In Hacking

#8 Social-Engineer Toolkit

Apart from Linux, Social-Engineer Toolkit is partially supported on Mac OS X and Windows. Also featured on Mr. Robot, TrustedSec's Social-Engineer Toolkit is an advanced framework for simulating multiple types of social engineering attacks like credential harvestings, phishing attacks, and more. On the show, Elliot is seen using the SMS spoofing tool from the Social-Engineer Toolkit.

This Python-driven tool is the standard tool for social engineering penetration tests with more than two million downloads. It automates the attacks and generates disguising emails, malicious web pages and more.
To download SET on Linux, type the following command:
git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit/ set/

Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free. Works with a client-server framework. Nessus is the Remote Security Scanner most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations worldwide. Many of the world's largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any kismet wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic. A good wireless tool as long as your card supports rfmon.

John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. It is the password cracking software tool. It is one of the most popular password testings and breaking programs as it combines a number of password crackers into one package, autodetects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker.

Also Read: Top 10+ Best WiFi Hacking Apps For Android

Unicornscan is an attempt at a User-land Distributed TCP/IP stack for information gathering and correlation. It is intended to provide a researcher a superior interface for introducing a stimulus into and measuring a response from a TCP/IP enabled device or network. Some of its features include asynchronous stateless TCP scanning with all variations of TCP flags, asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing, and active/passive remote OS, application, and component identification by analyzing responses.

Netsparker is an easy-to-use web application security scanner that uses the advanced Proof-Based vulnerability scanning technology and has built-in penetration testing and reporting tools. Netsparker automatically exploits the identified vulnerabilities in a read-only and safe way and also produces a proof of exploitation.

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

Also Read: Best Android Hacking Tools 2018

Well, this is another popular hacking tool which is used to scan ports in Windows. This is a free connect-based port scanning tool which is designed to detect open TCP and UDP ports on a target computer. In simple words, you can take SuperScan as a powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, and resolver.

Aircrack-ng is a network software suite which consists a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker, and analysis tool. In AirCrack you will find lots of tools which can be used for tasks like monitoring, attacking, pen testing and cracking. Without any doubt, this is one of the best network tools you can use.

If you are looking for a free and open source web application security scanner, then w3af is the best one for you. The tool is widely used by hackers and security researchers. w3aF or web application attack and audit framework are used to get security vulnerability information that can be further used in penetration testing engagements.

Other Top Best Hacking Tools:

SuperScan: Effective TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 is an upgrade of the extremely popular Windows port scanning tool

Cain and Abel: The Swiss knife of hacking tools. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.

Web Vulnerability Scanners: Firebug, AppScan, OWASP Zed, Paros Proxy

Vulnerability Exploitation Tools: SQLmap, Core Impact, WebGoat, BeEF

Forensic Tools: Helix3 Pro, EnCase, Autopsy

Port Scanners: NetScanTools, Angry IP Scanner

Traffic Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Ntop, Splunk, Ngrep, Argus

Debuggers: IDA Pro, WinDbg, Immunity Debugger, GDB

Rootkit Detectors: DumpSec, Tripwire, HijackThis

Encryption Tools: OpenSSL, OpenSSH/PuTTY/SSH, Tor

Password Crackers: Aircrack, Hydra, ophcrack

NetStumbler: Yes a decent wireless tool for Windows!

So above are the top best ethical hacking tools 2018 for Windows, Linux, and MAC OS X and must have tools for every hacker and these tools are used on PC. If you like this post, don't forget to share with your friends. If you face any problem feel free to discuss in the comment section below.

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