You're reading from Python for Security and Networking Leverage Python modules and tools in securing your network and applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837637553

Length 586 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Information Security

Author (1):

José Manuel Ortega

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Python Environment and System Programming Tools

2. Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER

3. System Programming Packages

4. Section 2: Network Scripting and Packet Sniffing with Python

5. Socket Programming

6. HTTP Programming and Web Authentication

7. Analyzing Network Traffic and Packet Sniffing

8. Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python

9. Gathering Information from Servers with OSINT Tools

10. Interacting with FTP, SFTP, and SSH Servers

11. Working with Nmap Scanner

12. Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Web Applications

13. Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners

14. Interacting with Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

15. Obtain Information from Vulnerabilities Databases

16. Section 5: Python Forensics

17. Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

18. Python Tools for Brute-Force Attacks

19. Cryptography and Code Obfuscation

20. Assessments – Answers to the End-of-Chapter Questions

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Getting information using SpiderFoot

Spiderfoot https://www.spiderfoot.net is a reconnaissance tool that performs queries over more than 100 public data sources to collect domains, names, emails, addresses, etc... Like many of the tools we have discussed, it is highly automated and will allow us to easily collect a large amount of information.

This project (https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot) is developed in Python and although it can be used as a tool from the command line, the most convenient way to work is to set up a web server that allows the investigation processes to be carried out. This tool can be installed with the following instructions:

$ git clone https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot.git
$ cd spiderfoot
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 sf.py -l 127.0.0.1:5001

Another way to run the server is to use a Docker image. In the repository, we can see the presence of a Dockerfile where the manifest and declaration of how the image should be created...