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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

You're reading from Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python Enhance your ethical hacking skills to build automated and intelligent systems

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788990820

Length 502 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Ethical Hacking

Author (1):

Furqan Khan

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to Python FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Python Scripts

3. Concept Handling

4. Advanced Python Modules

5. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 1

6. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 2

7. Machine Learning and Cybersecurity

8. Automating Web Application Scanning - Part 1

9. Automated Web Application Scanning - Part 2

10. Building a Custom Crawler

11. Reverse Engineering Linux Applications

12. Reverse Engineering Windows Applications

13. Exploit Development

14. Cyber Threat Intelligence

15. Other Wonders of Python

1. Assessments

2. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Authors (1)

Furqan Khan

Furqan Khan

Furqan Khan is a security researcher who loves to innovate in Python, pentesting, ML, AI, and big data ecosystems. With a gold medal at both M.Tech and B.Tech, he started off as a research scientist at NITK, where he developed a web app scanner for the Ministry of IT (India). He then worked as a security researcher with Paladion Networks and Wipro Dubai exploring pentesting/exploitation space where he developed tools such as vulnerability scanner and a threat intelligence platform. Currently, he is working with Du-Telecom Dubai as a pentesting manager. He has published and co-authored white papers and journals with Springer and Elsevier, and has also presented his research and development work at international conferences, including CoCon.

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