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

Capturing and injecting packets with pcapy-ng

In this section, you will learn the basics of pcapy-ng and how to capture and read headers from packets. pcapy-ng is a Python module that enables Python scripts to capture packets on the network, and it is highly effective when used in conjunction with other collections of Python classes for constructing and packet handling. You can download the source code and the latest stable and development version at https://github.com/stamparm/pcapy-ng.

To install pcapy-ng on your operating system, you can use the following command:

$ pip install pcapy-ng
Collecting pcapy-ng
  Downloading pcapy-ng-1.0.9.tar.gz (38 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: pcapy-ng
  Building wheel for pcapy-ng (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for pcapy-ng: filename=pcapy_ng-1.0.9-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl size=79955 sha256=3b2e321d2bc02106c1d3899663f9d5138bb523397c246274501cdc1c74f639e9
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/27/de/8d/474edb046464fd3c3bf2a79dec3222b732b5410d2e0097d2b0...