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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

You're reading from   Mastering Python for Networking and Security Leverage Python scripts and libraries to overcome networking and security issues

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788992510
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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José Manuel Ortega José Manuel Ortega
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with Python Scripting 2. System Programming Packages FREE CHAPTER 3. Socket Programming 4. HTTP Programming 5. Analyzing Network Traffic 6. Gathering Information from Servers 7. Interacting with FTP, SSH, and SNMP Servers 8. Working with Nmap Scanners 9. Connecting with the Metasploit Framework 10. Interacting with the Vulnerabilities Scanner 11. Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications 12. Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers 13. Cryptography and Steganography 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

This chapter covers the main modules we have in Python for extracting information about geolocation IP address, extracting metadata from images and documents, and identifying the web technology used by a site in the frontend and backend. Also, we cover how to extract metadata for chrome and firefox browsers and information related to downloads, cookies, and history data stored in the sqlite database.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The pygeoip and pygeocoder modules for geolocation
  • How to extract metadata from images with Python Image Library
  • How to extract metadata from PDF documents with pypdf module
  • How to identify technology used by a website
  • How to extract metadata from web browsers such as chrome and firefox
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