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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By : Rejah Rehim
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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By: Rejah Rehim

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is a practice of testing a computer system, network, or web application to find weaknesses in security that an attacker can exploit. Effective Python Penetration Testing will help you utilize your Python scripting skills to safeguard your networks from cyberattacks. We will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration testing. You will learn to analyze network traffic by writing Scapy scripts and will see how to fingerprint web applications with Python libraries such as ProxMon and Spynner. Moving on, you will find out how to write basic attack scripts, and will develop debugging and reverse engineering skills with Python libraries. Toward the end of the book, you will discover how to utilize cryptography toolkits in Python and how to automate Python tools and libraries.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Effective Python Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Debugging


Debugging is the process of fixing bugs in a program. Debuggers are those programs that can run and watchdog the execution of another program. So, the debugger can have control over the execution of the target program and can monitor or alter the memory and variables of the targeted program. 

Breakpoints

Breakpoints help to stop the execution of the target program within the debugger at a location where we choose. At that time, execution stops and control is passed to the debugger.

Breakpoints come in two different forms:

  • Hardware Breakpoints: Hardware breakpoints require hardware support from the CPU. They use special debug registers. These registers contain the breakpoint addresses, control information, and breakpoint type.

  • Software Breakpoints: A software breakpoint replaces the original instruction with an instruction that traps the debugger. This can only break on execution. The main difference between them is that hardware breakpoints can be set on memory. But, software breakpoints...