Raj - Python Penetration Testing Essentials: Techniques for ethical hacking with Python

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Mohit is a Python programmer with a keen interest in the field of information security. He has B.Tech (UIET, KUK, 2009) and M.E (Thapar University, 2012) degree. He is a CEH, ECSA at EC-Council USA. He has worked in IBM and Sapient. He is currently doing PhD from Thapar Institute of Engg & Technology under Dr. Maninder Singh. He has published several articles in national and international magazines. He is the author of Python Penetration Testing Essentials, Python: Penetration Testing for Developers and Learn Python in 7 Days also by Packt. His username is mohitrajcs on gmail..

Sanjeev Jaiswal is a computer graduate from CUSAT with 9 years of industrial experience. He uses Perl, Python, AWS, and GNU/Linux for his day-to-day activities. He's currently working on projects involving penetration testing, source code review, security design, and implementations in AWS and Cloud security projects.

He is learning DevSecOps and security automation currently as well. Sanjeev loves teaching engineering students and IT professionals. He has been teaching for the past 8 years in his leisure time. He founded Alien Coders and Cybercloud Guru as well.

Rejah Rehim is currently the Director and Chief Information SecurityOfficer (CISO) of Appfabs. Previously holding the title of Security Architect at FAYA India, he is a long-time preacher of open source and steady contributor to the Mozilla Foundation. He has successfully created the world's first security testing browser bundle, PenQ, an open source Linux-based penetration testing browser bundle preconfigured with tools for security testing. He is also an active member of OWASP and the chapter
leader of OWASP Kerala. Additionally, Rejah also holds the title of commander at Cyberdome, an initiative of the Kerala Police Department.

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This book is a practical guide that shows you the advantages of using Python for pentesting, with the help of detailed code examples. This book starts by exploring the basics of networking with Python and then proceeds to network and wireless pentesting, including information gathering and attacking. You will learn how to build honeypot traps. Later on, we delve into hacking the application layer, where we start by gathering information from a website, and then eventually move on to concepts related to website hacking, such as parameter tampering, DDOS, XSS, and SQL injection.

If you are a Python programmer, a security researcher, or a network admin who has basic knowledge of Python programming and want to learn about penetration testing with the help of Python, this book is ideal for you. Even if you are new to the field of ethical hacking, this book can help you find the vulnerabilities in your system so that you are ready to tackle any kind of attack or intrusion.

, Python with Penetration Testing and Networking, goes through the prerequisites of the following chapters. This chapter also discusses the socket and its methods. The server socket's method defines how to create a simple server.

, Scanning Pentesting, covers how to perform network scanning to gather information on a network, host, and the services that are running on the hosts. You will see a very fast and efficient IP scanner.