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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from   Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch Think like an ethical hacker, avoid detection, and successfully develop, deploy, detect, and avoid malware

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838829506
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fahad Ali Sarwar Fahad Ali Sarwar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Hacking FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started – Setting Up a Lab Environment 4. Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
5. Chapter 3: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering 6. Chapter 4: Network Scanning 7. Chapter 5: Man in the Middle Attacks 8. Section 3: Malware Development
9. Chapter 6: Malware Development 10. Chapter 7: Advanced Malware 11. Chapter 8: Post Exploitation 12. Chapter 9: System Protection and Perseverance 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Python

The next thing we will need to set up in this chapter is Python. We will be using Python version 3, or python3, in this book. Python 3 is a major version of Python and it is incompatible with the older version 2. To download Python, go to https://www.python.org/ and download the latest version. At the time of writing, Python 3.8 is the recommended version; however, every Python version above 3.2 should be fine for this book. The 64-bit version of Python is recommended. I will be assuming that you are using Windows as the main OS; however, the code mentioned in this book should work on Linux and macOS as well since we will be running virtual machines.

Installing Python on Windows

The procedure for installing Python on Windows is fairly simple. Open the Windows 10 virtual machine you just installed in the Installing virtual OSes section. Note that from now on, most of the work will be done on these virtual machines and not the guest OS hosting these virtual machines...

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