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

Introducing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

OSINT is the collection and analysis of publicly accessible information to produce actionable intelligence. OSINT is used in many fields, such as financial, technological, the police, the military, and marketing. For example, OSINT techniques allow investigations to be conducted within law enforcement to identify potential terrorist threats or to track and trace individuals.

If we focus on cybersecurity, we will find that OSINT has several applications:

It is used during the reconnaissance stage of pentesting with the aim of discovering hosts in an organization. Examples: Whois information, subdomain discovery, DNS information, finding configuration files, finding passwords.
These types of techniques are often used in social engineering attacks with the aim of obtaining all the information about a particular user in social networks. From a defensive point of view, awareness of the information that is openly available...