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Python Penetration Testing Essentials

You're reading from Python Penetration Testing Essentials Employ the power of Python to get the best out of pentesting

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784398583

Length 178 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

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Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Mohit Raj

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking

2. Scanning Pentesting FREE CHAPTER

3. Sniffing and Penetration Testing

4. Wireless Pentesting

5. Foot Printing of a Web Server and a Web Application

6. Client-side and DDoS Attacks

7. Pentesting of SQLI and XSS

Index

Client socket methods

The only method dedicated to the client is the following:

socket.connect(address): This method connects the client to the server. The address argument is the address of the server.

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Authors (1)

Mohit Raj

Mohit Raj

Mohit Raj is a Python programmer with a keen interest in the field of information security. He completed his bachelor's degree in technology in computer science from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, and his masters in engineering (2012) in computer science from Thapar University, Patiala. He is a C|EH, ECSA from EC-Council USA and a former IBMer. Mohit currently works at Sapient, and has published several articles in national and international magazines. He is the author of Python Penetration Testing Essentials and Python: Penetration Testing for Developers, also by Packt Publishing.

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