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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Cookbook Practical recipes on implementing information gathering, network security, intrusion detection, and post-exploitation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399771
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rejah Rehim Rejah Rehim
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Preface 1. Why Python in Penetration Testing? 2. Setting Up a Python Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Web Scraping with Python 4. Data Parsing with Python 5. Web Scraping with Scrapy and BeautifulSoup 6. Network Scanning with Python 7. Network Sniffing with Python 8. Scapy Basics 9. Wi-Fi Sniffing 10. Layer 2 Attacks 11. TCP/IP Attacks 12. Introduction to Exploit Development 13. Windows Exploit Development 14. Linux Exploit Development

Setting up a Python environment in Linux

Let's go through the step by step process of setting up your Python environment on your Linux system. First, we can learn to install Python if it's not installed by default.

Getting ready

As we have many package managers in different flavors of Linux distributions such as apt/apt-get and dpkg. For Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu, yum (Yellowdog) for CentOS/RHEL, and zypper and yast for SuSE Linux, these package managers will help us to install Python with ease in Linux distros. With this, you have to just issue a command and package managers will search for the required package and its dependencies, download the packages, and install them in your system.

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