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You're reading from Mastering Python for Networking and Security Leverage Python scripts and libraries to overcome networking and security issues

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788992510

Length 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

José Manuel Ortega

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER

2. System Programming Packages

3. Socket Programming

4. HTTP Programming

5. Analyzing Network Traffic

6. Gathering Information from Servers

7. Interacting with FTP, SSH, and SNMP Servers

8. Working with Nmap Scanners

9. Connecting with the Metasploit Framework

10. Interacting with the Vulnerabilities Scanner

11. Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

12. Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

13. Cryptography and Steganography

14. Assessments

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

This chapter covers the main modules we have in Python for extracting information about geolocation IP address, extracting metadata from images and documents, and identifying the web technology used by a site in the frontend and backend. Also, we cover how to extract metadata for chrome and firefox browsers and information related to downloads, cookies, and history data stored in the sqlite database.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

The pygeoip and pygeocoder modules for geolocation
How to extract metadata from images with Python Image Library
How to extract metadata from PDF documents with pypdf module
How to identify technology used by a website
How to extract metadata from web browsers such as chrome and firefox

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Authors (1)

José Manuel Ortega

José Manuel Ortega is a software engineer, focusing on new technologies, open source, security, and testing. His career goal has been to specialize in Python and security testing projects. In recent years, he has developed an interest in security development, especially in pentesting with Python. Currently, he is working as a security tester engineer and his functions in the role involves the analysis and testing of the security of applications in both web and mobile environments. He has taught at university level and collaborated with the official school of computer engineers. He has also been a speaker at various conferences. He is eager to learn about new technologies and loves to share his knowledge with the community.

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