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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)

Web spiders with Scrapy

Web spidering starts with a URL or a list of URLs to visit, and when the spider gets a new page, it analyzes the page to identify all the hyperlinks, adding these links to the list of URLs to be crawled. This action continues recursively for as long as new data is found.

A web spider can find new URLs and index them for crawling or download useful data from them. In the following recipe, we will use Scrapy to create a web spider.

Getting ready

We can start by installing Scrapy. It can be installed from Python's pip command:

pip install scrapy   

Make sure that you have the required permission for installing Scrapy. If any errors occur with the permission, use the sudo command.

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