September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
Content preview from Mastering Python for Networking and Security
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What can we do with scapy?
Scapy is a Swiss-army knife for network manipulation. For this reason, it can be used in many tasks and areas:
- Research in communications networks
- Security tests and ethical hacking to manipulate the traffic generated
- Package-capture, processing, and handling
- Generating packages with a specific protocol
- Showing detailed information about a certain package
- Packet-capturing, crafting, and manipulation
- Network Traffic Analysis Tools
- Fuzzing protocols and IDS/IPS testing
- Wireless discovery tools