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Python Penetration Testing Essentials

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Essentials Techniques for ethical hacking with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789138962
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mohit Raj Mohit Raj
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Preface 1. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Scanning Pentesting 3. Sniffing and Penetration Testing 4. Network Attacks and Prevention 5. Wireless Pentesting 6. Honeypot – Building Traps for Attackers 7. Foot Printing a Web Server and a Web Application 8. Client-Side and DDoS Attacks 9. Pentesting SQL and XSS 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Network scanning is done to gather information on the networks, hosts, and services that are running on the hosts. Network scanning is done by using the ping command of the OS; ping sweep takes advantage of the ping facility and scans the list of IP addresses. Sometimes, ping sweep does not work because users might turn off their ICMP ECHO reply feature or use a firewall to block ICMP packets. In this situation, your ping sweep scanner might not work. In such scenarios, we have to take advantage of the TCP three-way handshake; TCP works at the transport layer, so we have to choose the port number on which we want to carry out the TCP connect scan. Some ports of the Windows OS are always open, so you can take advantage of those open ports. The first main section is dedicated to network scanning; when you perform network scanning, your program should have maximum performance...

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