Learning penetration testing with Python: utilize Python scripting to execute effective and efficient penetration tests

✍ Scribed by Duffy, Christopher

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Utilize Python scripting to execute effective and efficient penetration tests

About This Book

Understand how and where Python scripts meet the need for penetration testing

Familiarise yourself with the process of highlighting a specific methodology to exploit an environment to fetch critical data

Develop your Python and penetration testing skills with real-world examples

Who This Book Is For

If you are a security professional or researcher, with knowledge of different operating systems and a conceptual idea of penetration testing, and you would like to grow your knowledge in Python, then this book is ideal for you.

What You Will Learn

Familiarise yourself with the generation of Metasploit resource files

Use the Metasploit Remote Procedure Call (MSFRPC) to automate exploit generation and execution

Use Python's Scrapy, network, socket, office, Nmap libraries, and custom modules

Parse Microsoft Office spreadsheets and...

✦ Subjects

Computer networks;Penetration testing (Computer security);Python (Computer program language)