Mohit - Python Penetration Testing Essentials [2015, PDF/ePub, ENG]

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1: Python with Penetration Testing and Networking
Introducing the scope of pentesting
Approaches to pentesting
Introducing Python scripting
Understanding the tests and tools you'll need
Learning the common testing platforms with Python
Network sockets
Server socket methods
Client socket methods
General socket methods
Moving on to the practical
Summary

2: Scanning Pentesting
How to check live systems in a network and the concept of a live system
What are the services running on the target machine?
Summary

3: Sniffing and Penetration Testing
Introducing a network sniffer
Implementing a network sniffer using Python
Learning about packet crafting
Introducing ARP spoofing and implementing it using Python
Testing the security system using custom packet crafting and injection
Summary

4: Wireless Pentesting
Wireless SSID finding and wireless traffic analysis by Python
Wireless attacks
Summary

5: Foot Printing of a Web Server and a Web Application
The concept of foot printing of a web server
Introducing information gathering
Information gathering of a website from SmartWhois by the parser BeautifulSoup
Banner grabbing of a website
Hardening of a web server
Summary

6: Client-side and DDoS Attacks
Introducing client-side validation
Tampering with the client-side parameter with Python
Effects of parameter tampering on business
Introducing DoS and DDoS
Summary

7: Pentesting of SQLI and XSS
Introducing the SQL injection attack
Types of SQL injections
Understanding the SQL injection attack by a Python script
Learning about Cross-Site scripting
Summary