Python Penetration Testing Essentials (eBook)

Techniques for ethical hacking with Python

Mohit Mohit (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
230 Seiten
Packt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78913-604-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing, with the help of detailed code examples. This book has been updated for Python 3.6.3 and Kali Linux 2018.1.

Key Features

• Detect and avoid various attack types that put the privacy of a system at risk
• Leverage Python to build efficient code and eventually build a robust environment
• Learn about securing wireless applications and information gathering on a web server

Book Description

This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing (pentesting), with the help of detailed code examples.

We start by exploring the basics of networking with Python and then proceed to network hacking. Then, you will delve into exploring Python libraries to perform various types of pentesting and ethical hacking techniques. Next, we delve into hacking the application layer, where we start by gathering information from a website. We then move on to concepts related to website hacking-such as parameter tampering, DDoS, XSS, and SQL injection.

By reading this book, you will learn different techniques and methodologies that will familiarize you with Python pentesting techniques, how to protect yourself, and how to create automated programs to find the admin console, SQL injection, and XSS attacks.

What you will learn

• The basics of network pentesting including network scanning and sniffing
• Wireless, wired attacks, and building traps for attack and torrent detection
• Web server footprinting and web application attacks, including the XSS and SQL injection attack
• Wireless frames and how to obtain information such as SSID, BSSID, and the channel number from a wireless frame using a Python script
• The importance of web server signatures, email gathering, and why knowing the server signature is the first step in hacking

Who this book is for

If you are a Python programmer, a security researcher, or an ethical hacker and are interested in penetration testing with the help of Python, then this book is for you. Even if you are new to the field of ethical hacking, this book can help you find the vulnerabilities in your system so that you are ready to tackle any kind of attack or intrusion.

Mohit is a Python programmer with a keen interest in the field of information security. He has completed his Bachelor's degree in technology in computer science from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, and a Master's in engineering (2012) in computer science from Thapar University, Patiala. He is a CEH, ECSA from EC-Council USA. He has worked in IBM, Teramatrix (Startup), and Sapient. He currently doing a Ph.D. from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology under Dr. Maninder Singh. He has published several articles in national and international magazines. He is the author of Python Penetration Testing Essentials, Python: Penetration Testing for Developers and Learn Python in 7 days, also by Packt. For more details on the author, you can check the following user name mohitraj.cs

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This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing, with the help of detailed code examples. This book has been updated for Python 3.6.3 and Kali Linux 2018.1.About This BookDetect and avoid various attack types that put the privacy of a system at riskLeverage Python to build efficient code and eventually build a robust environmentLearn about securing wireless applications and information gathering on a web serverWho This Book Is ForIf you are a Python programmer, a security researcher, or an ethical hacker and are interested in penetration testing with the help of Python, then this book is for you. Even if you are new to the field of ethical hacking, this book can help you find the vulnerabilities in your system so that you are ready to tackle any kind of attack or intrusion.What You Will LearnThe basics of network pentesting including network scanning and sniffingWireless, wired attacks, and building traps for attack and torrent detectionWeb server footprinting and web application attacks, including the XSS and SQL injection attackWireless frames and how to obtain information such as SSID, BSSID, and the channel number from a wireless frame using a Python scriptThe importance of web server signatures, email gathering, and why knowing the server signature is the first step in hackingIn DetailThis book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing (pentesting), with the help of detailed code examples.We start by exploring the basics of networking with Python and then proceed to network hacking. Then, you will delve into exploring Python libraries to perform various types of pentesting and ethical hacking techniques. Next, we delve into hacking the application layer, where we start by gathering information from a website. We then move on to concepts related to website hacking-such as parameter tampering, DDoS, XSS, and SQL injection.By reading this book, you will learn different techniques and methodologies that will familiarize you with Python pentesting techniques, how to protect yourself, and how to create automated programs to find the admin console, SQL injection, and XSS attacks.Style and approachThe book starts at a basic level and moves to a higher level of network and web security. The execution and performance of code are both taken into account.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
• Schlagworte: Kali Linux • network attacks • Pentesting • Python • python pentesting
• ISBN-10: 1-78913-604-0 / 1789136040
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78913-604-3 / 9781789136043