Python Forensics

Nowadays it is common practice amongst ethical hackers to write nifty scripts and automate any structured process, ranging from small network scans to wide area network packet sniffing. In recent years, Python has become the language of choice for such tasks, and there are good reasons for this. In this class you will learn ethical hacking using Python, we will discuss the reasons that make these two such a brilliant couple. Below is the list of topics we shall be going over: What is ethical hacking? What is Python? Why use Python for thical hacking? Simple dictionary attack using Python What is Ethical Hacking? The term hacking goes a long way back. To be exact, it all started at the Railroad Club of MIT, where both the term ‘hacking’ and ‘hacker’ were first coined. It’s been almost 50 years now, and hacking has evolved into a discipline in the current day and age. With the increase in awareness regarding data protection and data privacy, hacking has been deemed as an illegal activity today. If caught, there’s a good chance that you will be prosecuted for quite some time depending on the degree of harm caused. None the less, to protect themselves from hackers of all sorts, employment of Ethical Hackers has become a common practice amongst organizations. Ethical hackers are given the responsibility of finding and fixing security flaws for a certain organization before black hat hackers find them.

This 72 hour accelerated class is taught using face to face modality or hybrid modality. Class includes 72 hours of contact studies, labs, reading assignments and final exam ‐ passing the final exam is a requirement for graduation.

Class Materials – SU class textbook, Labs and resources CD

KU Outcomes

• Students will be able to hack using python.
• Students will be able to describe how to use python to write break code
• Students will be able to evaluate and categorize risk using Pthon coding

Text Materials: labs, SU Pen Testing Materials, resource CD’s and attack handouts ‐Machines a Dual Core 486M Ram, 1TGig drives, running MS OS, linux, and VMWare Workstation.

Below is the list of topics we shall be going over: What is ethical hacking? What is Python? Why use Python for thical hacking?
Simple dictionary attack using Python What is Ethical Hacking? The term hacking goes a long way back. To be exact, it all started at the Railroad Club of MIT, where both the term ‘hacking’ and ‘hacker’ were first coined. It’s been almost 50 years now, and hacking has evolved into a discipline in the current day and age. With the increase in awareness regarding data protection and data privacy, hacking has been deemed as an illegal activity today. If caught, there’s a good chance that you will be prosecuted for quite some time depending on the degree of harm caused. None the less, to protect themselves from hackers of all sorts, employment of Ethical Hackers has become a common practice amongst organizations. Ethical hackers are given the responsibility of finding and fixing security flaws for a certain organization before black hat hackers find them

Learning Objectives ‐

You will leais a general‐purpose scripting language that has gained immense popularity amongst professionals and beginners for its simplicity and powerful libraries. Python is insanely versatile and can be used for almost any kind of programming. From building small scale scripts that are meant to do banal tasks, to large scale system applications – Python can be used anywhere and everywhere. In fact, NASA actually uses Python for programming their equipment and space machinery. Python can also be used to process text, display numbers or images, solve scientific equations, and save data. In short, Python is used behind the scenes to process a lot of elements you might need or encounter on your devices.