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

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed using the socket module for implementing client-server architectures in Python with the TCP and UDP protocols. First, we reviewed the socket module for implementing a client and the main methods for resolving IP addresses from domains, including exception management. We continued to implement practical use cases, such as port scanning and a client-server application with message passing using TCP and UDP protocols. Finally, we implemented our own client-server application in a secure way using SSL sockets.

The main advantage provided by sockets is they maintain the connection in real time, and we can send and receive data from one end of the connection to another. For example, we could create our own chat, that is, a client-server application that allows messages to be received and sent in real time.

In the next chapter, we will explore HTTP request packages for working with Python, executing requests over a REST API, and authentication...