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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Cookbook Practical recipes on implementing information gathering, network security, intrusion detection, and post-exploitation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399771
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rejah Rehim Rejah Rehim
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Preface 1. Why Python in Penetration Testing? FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Python Environment 3. Web Scraping with Python 4. Data Parsing with Python 5. Web Scraping with Scrapy and BeautifulSoup 6. Network Scanning with Python 7. Network Sniffing with Python 8. Scapy Basics 9. Wi-Fi Sniffing 10. Layer 2 Attacks 11. TCP/IP Attacks 12. Introduction to Exploit Development 13. Windows Exploit Development 14. Linux Exploit Development

Setting up a Python environment in Windows

Python interpreter is not installed in Windows by default. So we have to download and install Python.

How to do it...

We can download the Python from the official website and install it in your system. Execute the following steps:

  1. Go to the official website of Python (http://python.org/download/) and download the latest version of Windows MSI installer.
  2. Run the installer.
  3. You can select the option to Install launcher for all users (recommended) and click Install Now to finish the installation.
  1. After installation, it would be better if you could add the default Python directories of your version to the PATH.

If you have installed Python in C:\Python36\, you should add the following...

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