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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

By : Rejah Rehim
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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

By: Rejah Rehim

Overview of this book

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. Since Python is a highly valued pen-testing language, there are many native libraries and Python bindings available specifically for pen-testing tasks. Python Penetration Testing Cookbook begins by teaching you how to extract information from web pages. You will learn how to build an intrusion detection system using network sniffing techniques. Next, you will find out how to scan your networks to ensure performance and quality, and how to carry out wireless pen testing on your network to avoid cyber attacks. After that, we’ll discuss the different kinds of network attack. Next, you’ll get to grips with designing your own torrent detection program. We’ll take you through common vulnerability scenarios and then cover buffer overflow exploitation so you can detect insecure coding. Finally, you’ll master PE code injection methods to safeguard your network.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Setting up a Python environment in Windows

Python interpreter is not installed in Windows by default. So we have to download and install Python.

How to do it...

We can download the Python from the official website and install it in your system. Execute the following steps:

  1. Go to the official website of Python (http://python.org/download/) and download the latest version of Windows MSI installer.
  2. Run the installer.
  3. You can select the option to Install launcher for all users (recommended) and click Install Now to finish the installation.
  1. After installation, it would be better if you could add the default Python directories of your version to the PATH.

If you have installed Python in C:\Python36\, you should add the following...