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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

Penetration testing is the use of tools and code to attack a system in order to assess its vulnerabilities to external threats. Python allows pen testers to create their own tools. This book provides quick Python recipes to let defense analysts work on their own on the path to discovering, and recovering from, vulnerabilities.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

7h32m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you are a developer with prior knowledge of using Python for penetration testing and if you want an overview of scripting tasks to consider while penetration testing, this book will give you a lot of useful code for your toolkit.

Book content

chapters 7h32m total length

Why Python in Penetration Testing?

Setting Up a Python Environment

Web Scraping with Python

Data Parsing with Python

Web Scraping with Scrapy and BeautifulSoup

Network Scanning with Python

Network Sniffing with Python

Scapy Basics

Wi-Fi Sniffing

Layer 2 Attacks

TCP/IP Attacks

Introduction to Exploit Development

Windows Exploit Development

Linux Exploit Development

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