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Python for Security and Networking

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637553
Length 586 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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José Manuel Ortega José Manuel Ortega
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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

Discovering services and vulnerabilities with Nmap scripts

In this section, we will learn how to discover services as well as perform advanced operations to collect information about a target and detect vulnerabilities in the FTP service.

Executing Nmap scripts to discover services

Nmap is an exceptional tool for performing network and service scans, but among its numerous features there are some very notable ones, such as the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE).

Nmap lets you perform vulnerability scans thanks to its powerful Lua scripting engine. In this way, we can also run more complex routines that let us filter information about a specific target.

Nmap provides several scripts that can help to identify services with the possibility to exploit found vulnerabilities. Each of these scripts can be called using the –script option:

  • Auth: Executes all available scripts for authentication
  • Default: Executes the basic scripts of the tool by default
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