September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
Content preview from Mastering Python for Networking and Security
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Technical requirements
Examples and source code for this chapter are available in the GitHub repository in the chapter9 folder: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Python-for-Networking-and-Security.
You will need to install Python distribution on your local machine with at least 4 GB memory. In this chapter, we will use a virtual machine with which some tests related to port analysis and vulnerability-detection will be carried out. It can be downloaded from the sourceforge page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/Metasploitable/files/Metasploitable2.
To log in, you must use msfadmin as both the username and the password:
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