You're reading from Mastering Python for Networking and Security Leverage the scripts and libraries of Python version 3.7 and beyond to overcome networking and security issues

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839217166

Length 538 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Tor

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

José Manuel Ortega

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Python Environment and System Programming Tools

2. Chapter 1: Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: System Programming Packages

4. Section 2: Network Scripting and Extracting Information from the Tor Network with Python

5. Chapter 3: Socket Programming

6. Chapter 4: HTTP Programming

7. Chapter 5: Connecting to the Tor Network and Discovering Hidden Services

8. Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python

9. Chapter 6: Gathering Information from Servers

10. Chapter 7: Interacting with FTP, SFTP, and SSH Servers

11. Chapter 8: Working with Nmap Scanner

12. Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Python Modules

13. Chapter 9: Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners

14. Chapter 10: Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

15. Chapter 11: Security and Vulnerabilities in Python Modules

16. Section 5: Python Forensics

17. Chapter 12: Python Tools for Forensics Analysis

18. Chapter 13: Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

19. Chapter 14: Cryptography and Steganography

20. Assessments

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Introducing the OpenVAS vulnerability scanner

Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) (available at https://www.openvas.org) is one of the most widely used open source vulnerability scanning and management solutions. This tool is designed to assist network/system administrators in vulnerability identification and intrusion detection tasks.

Next, we are going to review the main steps to install OpenVAS on your operating system.

Installing the OpenVAS vulnerability scanner

To install OpenVAS in a distribution that contains the apt-get package manager, carry out these steps:

Run the following command:
```
$ sudo apt-get install OpenVAS
```
If you are using a graphical interface for installation, you can check OpenVAS' installation dependencies:
Figure 9.8 – OpenVAS' installation dependencies
Once it's installed, you can use the OpenVAS-setup command to set up OpenVAS, download the latest rules, create an admin user, and start up the services...