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Security with Go

You're reading from Security with Go Explore the power of Golang to secure host, web, and cloud services

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788627917

Length 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Concepts

Network Security

Authors (2):

John Daniel Leon

Gaekwad

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to Security with Go FREE CHAPTER

2. The Go Programming Language

3. Working with Files

4. Forensics

5. Packet Capturing and Injection

6. Cryptography

7. Secure Shell (SSH)

8. Brute Force

9. Web Applications

10. Web Scraping

11. Host Discovery and Enumeration

12. Social Engineering

13. Post Exploitation

14. Conclusions

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Index

Prerequisites

Before running these examples, you need to have libpcap installed. In addition, we have to use a third-party Go package. Fortunately, this package is provided by Google, a trusted source. Go's get ability will download and install the remote package. Git will also be needed for go get to work properly.

Installing libpcap and Git

The libpcap package dependency does not come pre-installed on most systems, and the installation procedure is different for each operating system. Here we will cover the installation steps for libpcap and git for Ubuntu, Windows, and macOS. I highly recommend that you use Ubuntu or other Linux distributions for best results. Without libpcap, gopacket will not function, and git is required to fetch the gopacket dependency.

Installing libpcap on Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, libpcap-0.8 is already installed by default. To install the gopacket library, though, you also need the header files in the development package. You can install the header files through the libpcap...

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Authors (2)

John Daniel Leon

John Daniel Leon

John Daniel Leon is a security expert and developer residing in Houston, TX who currently works at IBM Cloud as the Application Security Architect. John maintains DevDungeon, a virtual hackerspace for developers and security experts. He has been programming from a young age and has a B.S. in Computer Science from University of North Texas. He spoke at GopherCon 2016 about packet capturing. John is a polyglot programmer with a strong interest in Python, Go, and Java. Outside of programming and security, he has a background in music theory, performance, and plays violin and guitar.

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