2. What Is This?
A hacking device is a tool or program that
is specially designed to help a hacker.
Hacking is intentional modification of
computer software or hardware that is
outside the architectural perimeters and
design.
A hacking tool is commonly used to gain
unauthorized access to a PC to insert
worms, viruses and Trojan horses.
3. SOME KINDS OF HACKING DEVICES
• NMAP PROJECT
• JOHN THE RIPPER
• THC HYDRA
• WIRE SHARK
5. Nmap (Network Mapper)
• Nmap is an abbreviation of ‘Network
Mapper’, and it’s very well known free open
source hackers tool.
• Nmap is mainly used for network discovery
and security auditing.
7. John The Ripper
• ‘JTR’ this is an hacking software that is
designed to crack even very complicated
passwords.
• John the Ripper, mostly just referred to as
simply, ‘John’ is a popular password cracking
pen testing tool that is most commonly used to
perform dictionary attacks.
• John the Ripper takes text string samples from
a text file, referred to as a ‘wordlist’ containing
popular and complex words found in a
dictionary or real passwords cracked before
9. THC Hydra
• THC Hydra is a fast and stable Network
Login Hacking Tool that will use dictionary
or brute-force attacks to try various
password and login combinations against an
log in page.
• This hacking tool supports a wide set of
protocols including Mail (POP3, IMAP, etc.),
Databases, LDAP, SMB, VNC, and SSH. Take
a look at John the Ripper as well.
11. Wire shark
• Wire shark is a very popular pen testing tool.
• Wire shark essentially captures data packets
in a network in real time and then displays
the data in human-readable format
(verbose).