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The ones I use the most are:

Wireshark (to analyze traffic coming too and from my website), Metasploit (To make social engineering exploits to make sure my servers arent vulnerable), Mantra Security Framework, Cisco OCS Mass Scanner (For breaking Cisco Routers), SQL Inject, SQL Scanner (Both for finding injection errors). If you master these, you can do a lot of cool things with them. Wireshark is your best friend when things aren't over SSL.



wireshark just fine when things are over ssl. all you need is the private key. you'd be floored at how lazy some people are with their private keys.




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