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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

Introducing OWASP ZAP as an automated security testing tool

OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is a web application scanner, a flagship project developed and maintained by the OWASP foundation. This tool provides a wide range of features for penetration testing and security analysis and claims to be the world’s most used tool for web application vulnerability testing. ZAP is an open-source project available for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. You can get the last version from https://www.zaproxy.org/download/.

Figure 9.18: OWASP ZAP installers

If you are working on a Linux-based operating system, you could download the following file, https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/releases/download/v2.12.0/ZAP_2.12.0_Linux.tar.gz, and unzip the tar.gz file in your computer. When you unzip it, you’ll get the following file structure:

$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 linux linux    4096  2 de gen.   1970 db
-rw-r--r-- 1 linux linux   10488 26 de gen.  20:39 hs_err_pid436060...

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