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Python: Penetration Testing for Developers

By : Christopher Duffy, Mohit , Cameron Buchanan, Andrew Mabbitt, Terry Ip, Dave Mound, Benjamin May
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Python: Penetration Testing for Developers

By: Christopher Duffy, Mohit , Cameron Buchanan, Andrew Mabbitt, Terry Ip, Dave Mound, Benjamin May

Overview of this book

Cybercriminals are always one step ahead, when it comes to tools and techniques. This means you need to use the same tools and adopt the same mindset to properly secure your software. This course shows you how to do just that, demonstrating how effective Python can be for powerful pentesting that keeps your software safe. Comprising of three key modules, follow each one to push your Python and security skills to the next level. In the first module, we’ll show you how to get to grips with the fundamentals. This means you’ll quickly find out how to tackle some of the common challenges facing pentesters using custom Python tools designed specifically for your needs. You’ll also learn what tools to use and when, giving you complete confidence when deploying your pentester tools to combat any potential threat. In the next module you’ll begin hacking into the application layer. Covering everything from parameter tampering, DDoS, XXS and SQL injection, it will build on the knowledge and skills you learned in the first module to make you an even more fluent security expert. Finally in the third module, you’ll find more than 60 Python pentesting recipes. We think this will soon become your trusted resource for any pentesting situation. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: ? Learning Penetration Testing with Python by Christopher Duffy ? Python Penetration Testing Essentials by Mohit ? Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook by Cameron Buchanan,Terry Ip, Andrew Mabbitt, Benjamin May and Dave Mound
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
Python: Penetration Testing for Developers
Python: Penetration Testing for Developers
Credits
Preface
Bibliography
Index

Getting screenshots of websites with QtWebKit


They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, it's good to get screenshots of websites during the intelligence gathering phase. We may want to scan an IP range and get an idea of which IPs are serving up web pages, and more importantly what they look like. This could assist us in picking out interesting sites to focus on and we also might want to quickly scan ports on a particular IP address for the same reason. We will take a look at how we can accomplish this using the QtWebKit Python library.

Getting ready

The QtWebKit is a bit of a pain to install. The easiest way is to get the binaries from http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download. For Windows users, make sure you pick the binaries that fit your python/arch path. For example, I will use the PyQt4-4.11.3-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.6-x32.exe binary to install Qt4 on my Windows 32bit Virtual Machine that has Python version 2.7 installed. If you are planning on compiling Qt4 from...