2016 Top Hacking Tools

Back on the top from 2015 are: Nmap, Metasploit, Burp Suite, John The Ripper, THC Hydra
Others listed on www.techworm.net—

• 2016: Acutenix Web Vul Scanner, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project, Wireshark, Burp Suite, Aircrack-ng
• 2015: Cane and Abel, Angry IP Scanner, Burp Suite, Nessus Remote Security Scanner, Ettercap, Wapiti

Nice to see some of the oldies of 10+ years ago have continued to make the top of the list including: Nmap, Metasploit and John The Ripper!  The fundamental of network sniffing, password cracking and vulnerability exploitation has remain static - and as open source and some really cheap investments.  Technology has advanced but the same tools that guaranteed 100% success in penetration testing have not. I would also add to the collection: WebScarab, DumpSec, netStumbler, Nipper, Minikatz, netcat, Ngrep and suite of PS tools…  Happy hacking from VMs instead of the old/clumsy drive partitions ;)