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Ortega, José Manuel. Mastering Python for networking and security [[electronic resource]]: leverage Python scripts and libraries to overcome networking and security issues. — Birmingham: Packt, 2018. — 1 online resource (415 p.) — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1905979.pdf>.

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Subject: Python (Computer program language); COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Python.; COMPUTERS / Security / General.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Packt Upsell
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Working with Python Scripting
    • Technical requirements
    • Programming and installing Python
      • Introducing Python scripting
        • Why choose Python?
        • Multi-platform
        • Object-Oriented Programming
      • Obtaining and installing Python
        • Installing Python on Windows
        • Installing Python for Linux
    • Python collections
      • Lists
        • Reversing a List
        • Comprehension lists
      • Tuples
      • Dictionaries
    • Python functions and managing exceptions
      • Python functions
      • Managing exceptions 
    • Python as an OOP language
      • Inheritance
    • The OMSTD methodology and STB Module for Python scripting
      • Python packages and modules
        • What is a module in Python?
        • Difference Between a Python Module and a Python Package
      • Passing parameters in Python
      • Managing dependencies in a Python project
        • Generating the requirements.txt file
      • Working with virtual environments
        • Using virtualenv and virtualwrapper
      • The STB (Security Tools Builder) module
    • The main development environments for script-development
      • Setting up a development environment
      • Pycharm
      • WingIDE
      • Debugging with WingIDE
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 2: System Programming Packages
    • Technical requirements
    • Introducing system modules in python
      • The system module
      • The operating system module
        • Contents of the current working directory
        • Determining the operating system
      • Subprocess module
    • Working with the filesystem in Python
      • Accessing files and directories
        • Recursing through directories
        • Checking whether a specific path is a file or directory
        • Checking whether a file or directory exists
        • Creating directories in Python
      • Reading and writing files in Python
        • File methods
        • Opening a file
        • With a Context Manager
        • Reading a file line by line
    • Threads in Python
      • Introduction to Threads
        • Types of threads
        • Processes vs Threads
      • Creating a simple Thread
      • Threading module
    • Multithreading and concurrency in Python
      • Introduction to Multithreading
      • Multithreading in Python
      • Limitations with classic python threads
      • Concurrency in python with ThreadPoolExecutor
        • Creating ThreadPoolExecutor
        • ThreadPoolExecutor in practice
        • Executing ThreadPoolExecutor with Context Manager
    • Python Socket.io
      • Introducing WebSockets
      • aiohttp and asyncio
      • Implementing a Server with socket.io
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 3: Socket Programming
    • Technical requirements
    • Introduction to sockets
      • Network sockets in Python
      • The socket module
      • Socket methods
        • Server socket methods
        • Client socket methods
      • Basic client with the socket module
    • Creating a simple TCP client and TCP server
      • Creating a server and client with sockets
      • Implementing the TCP serverIn this example, we are going to create a multithreaded TCP server.
      • Implementing the TCP client
    • Creating a simple UDP client and UDP server
      • Introduction to the UDP protocol
      • UDP client and server with the socket module
        • Implementing the UDP Server
        • Implementing the UDP client
    • Resolving IP addresses and domains
      • Gathering information with sockets
      • Reverse lookup
    • Practical use cases for sockets
      • Port scanner with sockets
      • Managing socket exceptions
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 4: HTTP Programming
    • Technical requirements
    • HTTP protocol and building HTTP clients in python
      • Introduction to  the HTTP Protocol
      • Building an HTTP Client with httplib
    • Building an HTTP Client with urllib2
      • Introduction to urllib2
      • Response objects
      • Status codes
      • Checking HTTP headers with urllib2
      • Using the urllib2 Request class
      • Customizing requests with urllib2
        • Getting emails from a URL with urllib2
        • Getting links from a URL with urllib2
    • Building an HTTP Client with requests
      • Introduction to requests
      • Requests advantages
      • Making GET Requests with the REST API
      • Making POST Requests with the REST API
      • Making Proxy Requests
      • Managing exceptions with requests
    • Authentication mechanisms with Python
      • Authentication with the requests module
      • HTTP Basic authentication
      • HTTP Digest Authentication
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further Reading
  • Chapter 5: Analyzing Network Traffic
    • Technical requirements
    • Capturing and injecting packets with pcapy
      • Introduction to pcapy
      • Capturing packets with pcapy
      • Reading headers from packets
    • Capturing and injecting packets with scapy
      • What can we do with scapy?
      • Scapy advantages and disadvantages
      • Introduction to scapy
      • Scapy commands
      • Sending packets with scapy
      • Packet-sniffing with scapy
      • Using Lamda functions with scapy
        • Filtering UDP packets
    • Port-scanning and traceroute with scapy
      • Port-scanning with scapy
      • Traceroute command with scapy
    • Reading pcap files with scapy
      • Introduction to the PCAP format
      • Reading pcap files with scapy
      • Writing a pcap file
      • Sniffing from a pcap file with scapy
        • Network Forensic with scapy
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 6: Gathering Information from Servers
    • Technical requirements
    • Introduction to gathering information
    • Extracting information from servers with Shodan
      • Introduction to Shodan
      • Accessing Shodan services
      • Shodan filters
      • Shodan search with python
      • Performing searches by a given host
      • Searching for FTP servers
    • Using python to obtain server information
      • Extracting servers banners with python
      • Finding whois information about a server
    • Getting information on dns servers with DNSPython
      • DNS protocol
      • DNS servers
      • The DNSPython module
    • Getting vulnerable addresses in servers with Fuzzing
      • The Fuzzing process
      • The FuzzDB project
      • Fuzzing with python with pywebfuzz
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 7: Interacting with FTP, SSH, and SNMP Servers
    • Technical requirements
    • Connecting with FTP servers
      • The File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
      • The Python ftplib module
      • Transferring files with FTP
      • Using ftplib to brute force FTP user credentials
      • Building an anonymous FTP scanner with Python
    • Connecting with SSH servers
      • The Secure Shell (SSH) protocol
      • Introduction to Paramiko
        • Installing Paramiko
      • Establishing SSH connection with Paramiko
      • Running commands with Paramiko
      • SSH connection with brute-force processing
      • SSH connection with pxssh
      • Running a command on a remote SSH server
    • Connecting with SNMP servers
      • The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
      • PySNMP
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 8: Working with Nmap Scanners
    • Technical requirements
    • Introducing port scanning with Nmap
      • Introducing to port scanning
      • Scanning types with Nmap
    • Port scanning with python-nmap
      • Introduction to python-nmap
      • Installing python-nmap
      • Using python-nmap
    • Scan modes with python-nmap
      • Synchronous scanning
      • Asynchronous scanning
    • Vulnerabilities with Nmap scripts
      • Executing Nmap scripts to detect vulnerabilities
      • Detecting vulnerabilities in FTP service
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 9: Connecting with the Metasploit Framework
    • Technical requirements
    • Introducing the Metasploit framework
      • Introduction to exploiting
      • Metasploit framework
      • Metasploit architecture
    • Interacting with the Metasploit framework
      • Introduction to msfconsole
      • Introduction to the Metasploit exploit module
      • Introduction to the Metasploit payload module
      • Introduction to msgrpc
    • Connecting the Metasploit framework and Python
      • Introduction to MessagePack
      • Installing python-msfrpc
      • Executing API calls
      • Exploiting the Tomcat service with Metasploit
      • Using the tomcat_mgr_deploy exploit
    • Connecting Metasploit with pyMetasploit
      • Introduction to PyMetasploit
      • Interacting with the Metasploit framework from python
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 10: Interacting with the Vulnerabilities Scanner
    • Technical requirements
    • Introducing vulnerabilities
      • Vulnerabilities and exploits
        • What is a vulnerability?
        • What is an exploit?
      • Vulnerabilities format
    • Introducing the Nessus Vulnerabilities scanner
      • Installing the Nessus Vulnerabilities scanner
      • Executing the Nessus Vulnerabilities scanner
      • Identifying vulnerabilities with Nessus
    • Accessing the Nessus API with Python
      • Installing the nessrest Python module
      • Interacting with the nesssus server
    • Introducing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner
      • Installing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner
      • Executing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner
    • Accessing the Nexpose API with Python
      • Installing the pynexpose Python Module
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 11: Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
    • Technical requirements
    • Introducing vulnerabilities in web applications with OWASP
      • Introduction to OWASP
      • OWASP common attacks
      • Testing Cross-site scripting (XSS)
    • W3af scanner vulnerabilities in web applications
      • W3af overview
      • W3AF profiles
      • W3af install
      • W3af in Python
    • Discovering sql vulnerabilities with Python tools
      • Introduction to SQL injection
      • Identifying pages vulnerable to SQL Injection
      • Introducing SQLmap
      • Installing SQLmap
      • Using SQLMAP to test a website for a SQL Injection vulnerability
        • Other commands
      • Other tools for detecting SQL Injection vulnerabilities
        • DorkMe
        • XSScrapy
    • Testing heartbleed and SSL/TLS vulnerabilities
      • Introducing OpenSSL
      • Finding vulnerable servers in Shodan
      • Heartbleed vulnerability (OpenSSL CVE-2014-0160)
      • Other tools for testing openssl vulnerability
        • Heartbleed-masstest
        • Scanning for Heartbleed with the nmap port scanner
        • Analyzing SSL/TLS configurations with SSLyze script 
        • Other services
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 12: Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers
    • Technical Requirements
    • Extracting geolocation information
      • Introduction to geolocation
      • Introduction to Pygeoip
      • Introduction to pygeocoder
      • The MaxMind database in Python
    • Extracting metadata from images
      • Introduction to Exif and the PIL module
      • Getting the EXIF data from an image
      • Understanding Exif Metadata
      • Extracting metadata from web images
    • Extracting metadata from pdf documents
      • Introduction to PyPDF2
      • Peepdf
    • Identifying the technology used by a website
      • Introduction to the builtwith module
      • Wappalyzer
      • wig – webapp information gatherer
    • Extracting metadata from web browsers
      • Firefox Forensics in Python with dumpzilla
        • Dumpzilla command line
      • Firefox forensics in Python with firefeed
      • Chrome forensics with python
      • Chrome forensics with Hindsight
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Chapter 13: Cryptography and Steganography
    • Technical requirements
    • Encrypting and decrypting information with pycrypto
      • Introduction to cryptography
      • Introduction to pycrypto
      • Encrypting and decrypting with the DES algorithm
      • Encrypting and decrypting with the AES algorithm
      • File encryption with AES
      • File decryption with AES
    •  Encrypting and decrypting information with cryptography
      • Introduction to cryptography
      • Symmetric encryption with the fernet package
      • Using passwords with the fernet package
      • Symmetric encryption with the ciphers package
    • Steganography techniques for hiding information in images
      • Introduction to Steganography
      • Steganography with Stepic
      • Hiding data inside images with stepic
    • Summary
    • Questions
    • Further reading
  • Assessments
  • Other Books You May Enjoy
  • Index

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