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Security with Go

You're reading from Security with Go Explore the power of Golang to secure host, web, and cloud services

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788627917

Length 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Concepts

Network Security

Authors (2):

Karthik Gaekwad

John Daniel Leon

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

1. Introduction to Security with Go FREE CHAPTER

2. The Go Programming Language

3. Working with Files

4. Forensics

5. Packet Capturing and Injection

6. Cryptography

7. Secure Shell (SSH)

8. Brute Force

9. Web Applications

10. Web Scraping

11. Host Discovery and Enumeration

12. Social Engineering

13. Post Exploitation

14. Conclusions

15. Another Book You May Enjoy

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Web scraping fundamentals

Web scraping, as used in this book, is the process of extracting information from an HTML-structured page that is intended to be viewed by a human and not consumed programmatically. Some services provide an API that is efficient for programmatic use, but some websites only provide their information in HTML pages. These web scraping examples demonstrate various ways of extracting information from HTML. We'll look at basic string matching, then regular expressions, and then a powerful package named goquery, for web scraping.

Finding strings in HTTP responses with the strings package

To get started, let's look at making a basic HTTP request and searching for a string using the standard library...

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Authors (2)

Gaekwad

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John Daniel Leon

John Daniel Leon

John Daniel Leon is a security expert and developer residing in Houston, TX who currently works at IBM Cloud as the Application Security Architect. John maintains DevDungeon, a virtual hackerspace for developers and security experts. He has been programming from a young age and has a B.S. in Computer Science from University of North Texas. He spoke at GopherCon 2016 about packet capturing. John is a polyglot programmer with a strong interest in Python, Go, and Java. Outside of programming and security, he has a background in music theory, performance, and plays violin and guitar.

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