Your favorite penetration testing tools

[gnupipe]

Some (public) tools I use:

Nmap http://nmap.org (http://nmap.org/)
John The Ripper http://www.openwall.com/john/
Ncat http://nmap.org/ncat/

(http://www.openwall.com/john/)

[2hot6ft2]

BackTrack. Enough said.

[juancarlospaco]

I use BackTrac programs on Ubuntu from their Repo.
:)

[Kdar]

What is penetration testing tool?

[eriktheblu]

Ballistic gelatin?

Of course, water jugs or wet newspaper are an inexpensive alternative.

[lisati]

"Ha ha" to the "naughty" suggestions.

Shields up (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2)

[fatality_uk]

http://sectools.org/

Enjoy

[The Real Dave]

The BackTrack BT4 DVD :) My favourite being Kismet :)

[Xbehave]

nmap - scan, so usefull, i use it when not pen testing just as a quick way to map a network
aircrack-ng - wireless not really "testing" though, OPN/WEP = broken, WPA = safe i know that before i "test" the network.
metasploit - still learning how to use it but autopwn is a exploit scanner

todo:
airpwn
cane and able

[d3v1150m471c]

What is penetration testing tool?
They're pieces of software that you use to find, test, and create exploits so that you can reverse engineer the damage or failed security and thus, harden the system.

[2hot6ft2]

I use BackTrac programs on Ubuntu from their Repo.
:)
Yeah, that too. But just a few.:-#:-\":-$