A Hackers Workstation

To start learn hacking you are going to need these Operating system and tools. if you too good in programming then you may not need these tool, but for effective and quick response you are gonna need this setup.
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Operating System:

Which OS to use, choice is all yours. Windows in all cases is not so ‘made for hacking’ according to me. Whatever XP,Vista or windows 7. They are all just OS which are made for novice public which can learn computers.

If you are a regular Linux user, Then shift to Backtrack Linux. It is Linux made for hacker geeks & completely embedded with all penetration testing tools in it. But if you have never used Linux & wish to learn then you can use basic Linux distributions like Ubuntu. But remember that you or not supposed to learn Linux desktop environment like windows, you have to learn its shell or terminal.
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Hackers Toolkit:
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Go surf for these tools enlisted.

• NMAP : Enumeration 
• Nessus : Scanning & Enumeration
• Ethereal
• Snort  : Network  Hacking And Monitoring
• Netcat
• TCPDump : For sniffing TCP Packets
• WinDump  : Window version for tcp dump
• Hping2 : Active network security tool 
• DSniff : Sniffing Data Packets
• GFI LANguard : LAN Security
• Ettercap : Tool for man in the middle attack
• Whisker/Libwhisker
• John the Ripper : Password Cracking Utility
• OpenSSH
• Sam Spade
• ISS Internet Scanner : Web Server Security
• Tripwire
• Nikto
• Kismet
• SuperScan : Another Great Scanner
• Cain & Abel
• SolarWinds Toolsets
• NTop
• Nemesis
• Honeyd
• Achilles
• Firewalk
• Trend Micro online scan
• Tiny Firewall
• Symantec Virus Tools
• Linux Security Audit Tool
• Firewall Builder
• IPCop
• AirSnort : Wireless Network Hacking
• SATAN
• Rootkit Hunter : To find out installed root kits.
• SpamAssassin
• grsecurity 
• IP-Scanner : To scan IP Ranges
  

  •  and the most important Wireshark

  these are the essential tools for hacking how you gonna use it please 
  wait for next update.