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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By : Rejah Rehim
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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By: Rejah Rehim

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is a practice of testing a computer system, network, or web application to find weaknesses in security that an attacker can exploit. Effective Python Penetration Testing will help you utilize your Python scripting skills to safeguard your networks from cyberattacks. We will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration testing. You will learn to analyze network traffic by writing Scapy scripts and will see how to fingerprint web applications with Python libraries such as ProxMon and Spynner. Moving on, you will find out how to write basic attack scripts, and will develop debugging and reverse engineering skills with Python libraries. Toward the end of the book, you will discover how to utilize cryptography toolkits in Python and how to automate Python tools and libraries.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Effective Python Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

CapTipper


CapTipper is a Python tool used to analyze and discover malicious HTTP traffic. It can also help to analyze and revive captured sessions from PCAP files. CapTipper builds a web server that works exactly as the server in the PCAP file. It also includes internal tools with a powerful interactive console for the evaluation and inspection of the hosts, objects, and conversations found. Thus, the tool equips provides access to the files and the understanding of the network flow for the security tester. It is helpful when studying exploits. CapTipper allows the security tester to analyze the behavior of the attack, even after the original server is already dead.

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Read more on CapTipper at, https://github.com/omriher/CapTipper.