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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

Extracting geolocation information

One way to obtain geolocation from an IP address or a domain is by using a service that provides location data such as the country, latitude, and longitude. Among the services that provide this information in an easy way, hackertarget.com is a popular service with quality location data (https://hackertarget.com/geoip-ip-location-lookup). This service also provides a REST API for obtaining geolocation from an IP address using the https://api.hackertarget.com/geoip/?q=8.8.8.8 endpoint:

IP Address: 8.8.8.8
Country: United States
State: California
City: Los Angeles
Latitude: 34.0544
Longitude: -118.2441

We can use similar services to get geolocation, such as https://ip-api.com. This service provides an endpoint to get geolocation by IP address: http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8. In the following script, we are using this service and the requests module to obtain a JSON response with geolocation information. You can find the following code in the...

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