Automated Tools for Web Hacking

There are many tools available on the internet for web hacking. We have listed some of the popular tools.

Netcat, written by Hobbit—the Swiss Army knife of hacking.

Whisker, written by Rain Forest Puppy (http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp)—one of the first complete Web checking tools.

Brutus, written by the folks at HooBie Inc. (http://www.hoobie.net/brutus/)—one of the most robust Web authentication brute forcers.

Achilles, written by Roberto Cardona (http://www.digizen-security.com)—one of the first usable HTTP proxy servers to insert commands in the HTTP stream dynamically.

Cookie Pal, written by Kookaburra Software (http://www.kburra.com/)—one of the best programs for monitoring the cookies being created/deleted on a system.

Teleport Pro, written by Tennyson Maxwell Information Systems, Inc. (http://www.tenmax.com)—performs automated and scheduled crawling and inventorying of Web servers.