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

Technical requirements

The examples and source code for this chapter are available in the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-for-Security-and-Networking.

This chapter requires the installation of specific tools for discovering vulnerabilities in web applications. You can use your operating system’s package management tool to install them.

One of the main tools for detecting SQL vulnerabilities is SQLmap, which can be installed in a Debian-based Linux operating system using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install sqlmap

For readers that are using other operating systems such as Windows or macOS, we encourage reading the individual READMEs in the official documentation, https://sqlmap.org, and the official GitHub repository, https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap.

Check out the following video to see the Code in Action: https://packt.link/Chapter10.