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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)

Parsing XML data

Sometimes, we will get an XML response from the server, and we have to parse the XML to extract the data. We can use the xml.etree.ElementTree module to parse the XML files.

Getting ready

We have to install the required module, xml:

pip install xml  

How to do it...

Here is how we can parse XML data with XML module:

  1. First import the required modules. As this script is in Python 3, make sure that you import the correct modules:
from urllib.request import urlopen 
from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse 
  1. Now get the XML file with the urlopen method in...