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Security with Go

By : John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad
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Security with Go

By: John Daniel Leon, Karthik Gaekwad

Overview of this book

Go is becoming more and more popular as a language for security experts. Its wide use in server and cloud environments, its speed and ease of use, and its evident capabilities for data analysis, have made it a prime choice for developers who need to think about security. Security with Go is the first Golang security book, and it is useful for both blue team and red team applications. With this book, you will learn how to write secure software, monitor your systems, secure your data, attack systems, and extract information. Defensive topics include cryptography, forensics, packet capturing, and building secure web applications. Offensive topics include brute force, port scanning, packet injection, web scraping, social engineering, and post exploitation techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Network

Sometimes, a strange IP will show up in logs, and you will need to find out more information, or there can be a domain name that you need to geolocate based on an IP address. These examples demonstrate gathering information about hosts. Packet capturing is also an integral part of network forensic investigations, but there is so much to say about packet capturing, so Chapter 5, Packet Capturing and Injection dedicated just to packet capturing and injection.

Looking up a hostname from an IP address

This program will take an IP address and figure out what the hostnames are. The net.parseIP() function is used to validate the IP address provided, and net.LookupAddr() does the real work of figuring out what the hostname...