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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Fahad Ali Sarwar
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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By: Fahad Ali Sarwar

Overview of this book

Penetration testing enables you to evaluate the security or strength of a computer system, network, or web application that an attacker can exploit. With this book, you'll understand why Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages for penetration testing. You'll find out how to harness the power of Python and pentesting to enhance your system security. Developers working with Python will be able to put their knowledge and experience to work with this practical guide. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this book takes a hands-on approach to help you build your own pentesting tools for testing the security level of systems and networks. You'll learn how to develop your own ethical hacking tools using Python and explore hacking techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in networks and systems. Finally, you'll be able to get remote access to target systems and networks using the tools you develop and modify as per your own requirements. By the end of this ethical hacking book, you'll have developed the skills needed for building cybersecurity tools and learned how to secure your systems by thinking like a hacker.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
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Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
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Section 3: Malware Development

Classifying network

As more and more computers start connecting, it becomes essential to classify them into different classes so that we can use them. There are various methods we can use for classification; however, the most common one is network classification based on geography. We will discuss this next.

Local area network

When you connect your laptop or phone to a Wi-Fi router located in your home, you are essentially participating in a local area network (LAN). There are multiple types of connections you can make to a LAN, such as by using Wi-Fi, which is a wireless connection, or by using a wired connection such as an ethernet cable. There is no hard definition of what constitutes a LAN. However, a LAN is usually composed of devices that are in the same proximity in a building. LAN can be as simple as two devices connecting to a router or as complicated as LANs in universities and offices.

Ethernet

Ethernet is one of the most used technologies in LAN. Modern ethernet...