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

Extracting metadata from images

In this section, we will review how to extract EXIF metadata from images with the PIL module. EXchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) is a specification that adds metadata to certain types of image formats. Typically, JPEG and TIFF images contain this type of metadata. EXIF tags usually contain camera details and settings used to capture an image but can also contain more interesting information such as author copyright and geolocation data.

Introduction to EXIF and the PIL module

One of the main modules that we find within Python for the processing and manipulation of images is the Python Imaging Library (PIL). The PIL module allows us to extract the metadata of images in EXIF format. We can install it with the following command:

$ pip install pillow

EXIF is a specification that indicates the rules that must be followed when we are going to save images and defines how to store metadata in image and audio files. This specification is...