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

Accessing OpenVAS with Python

We could automate the process of getting the information stored in the OpenVAS server using the python-gmv module. This module provides an interface for interacting with the OpenVAS server’s vulnerability scan functionality. You can get more information about this module at https://pypi.org/project/python-gvm. The API documentation is available at https://python-gvm.readthedocs.io/en/latest.

One of the most direct ways to connect to the server from Python is using the socket that we have available with one of the volumes that Docker mounts for the application. To see the mounted volumes, we can use the following command:

$ sudo docker volume ls
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
local     greenbone-community-edition_cert_data_vol
local     greenbone-community-edition_data_objects_vol
local     greenbone-community-edition_gpg_data_vol
local     greenbone-community-edition_gvmd_data_vol
local     greenbone-community-edition_gvmd_socket_vol
local     greenbone...