Building a script for brute-forcing SCADA

I am going to assume that by reading this book, you have a relative level of proficiency or exposure to programming/bash scripting. If not, I strongly recommend brushing up on bash scripting and/or Python. Two books that I personally recommend are as follows:

• Cybersecurity Ops with bash, by Paul Troncone and Carl Albing, PhD
• Black Hat Python, by Justin Seitz

These are great resources for you to get a good idea of how and what Bash and Python can do and perform. The biggest takeaway is that by reading this book and going through these chapters, you will learn how to make these scripting/programming languages useful inside your pentesting engagement.

I prefaced this section with the preceding note as I am going to try and make this process as painless as possible. As a disclaimer, I have to say that I am a developer at best, not a programmer by any means. I am making this distinction as programmers who decide to make their...