The process of joining a Wi-Fi network is simple. The devices can listen for other devices to identity them. These identifiers are broadcast continuously and are known as beacons. These types of unique beacons are broadcast by the devices, which act as access points. These beacons include an SSID that acts as the name of that access point. Every SSID broadcasts its own unique beacon frame to notify any listening device that this SSID is available and it has particular capabilities. We can sniff the packets in the Wi-Fi interface to get the Wi-Fi devices available in the area by listening to these beacons broadcast by the access points. Here we use Scapy to analyze the packets captured by the interface to extract the beacons.
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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.
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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Why Python in Penetration Testing?
Setting Up a Python Environment
Web Scraping with Python
Data Parsing with Python
Web Scraping with Scrapy and BeautifulSoup
Network Scanning with Python
Network Sniffing with Python
Scapy Basics
Wi-Fi Sniffing
Layer 2 Attacks
TCP/IP Attacks
Introduction to Exploit Development
Windows Exploit Development
Linux Exploit Development
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