Developing Ethical Hacking Tools with Python
Course Content
Have you ever wondered why some ethical hackers have an edge over other ethical hackers? One of the major reasons is that they can code their own tools and automate their security assessment processes. Most often than not they use scripting languages such as Python, which is relatively easy to understand and very powerful when you master it. Throughout this Python hacking course you will learn how to combine multiple Python libraries that are related to cybersecurity so that you build an automated process of information gathering. You will also learn how to code a keylogger, as well as how to write a ZIP password bruteforcer in Python. Additional reading resources will be provided along the way.
Is Python Useful For Ethical Hacking?
Using a scripting language, such as Python, is easy to understand and very powerful because an ethical hacker can code their own tools and automate their security assessment processes.Python can be flexible and functional. Developers find Python intuitive and easily readable, which makes it very useful for writing scripts for small programs, which ethical hackers must do frequently.
Why Is Python Used For Hacking?
Learning Python can provide a strong coding foundation for any developer at the start of their career. Knowledge of Python can be parlayed into web development and testing, ethical hacking, big data, game development, artificial intelligence, and smart device development.Python comes easy to many developers, which makes it ideal to use when starting ethical hacking.
Developers consider Python a general-use programming language, making it easily adaptable. Python is open-source and object-oriented, which means anyone can contribute to growing the program and help other ethical hackers solve problems quickly. Python has robust libraries that developers can use and apply to hacking and for writing programs other than hacking programs, as well.
How Long Does It Take To Learn Python For Hacking?
Cybrary’s Python hacking course will take students 1 hour and 12 minutes complete. Cybrary’s course is quick and best for Intermediate level developers, as the course offers a lot of information in a short time period.For further advancement, Cybrary offers other Python courses to expand a student’s knowledge, but the Python For Hacking course provides an essential building block and foundation to catapult developers into ethical hacking.
What’s The Best Way To Learn Python For Hacking?
For students who want to learn Python For Hacking, sign up for a Python hacking course with Cybrary.Cybrary offers an online library that provides a Python hacking tutorial. During Cybrary’s Python hacking course, students will learn how to combine multiple Python libraries that are related to cybersecurity so that they can build an automated process of information gathering. By the end of the hacking with Python course, students will understand how to code a keylogger, as well as how to write a ZIP password bruteforcer in Python.
Cybrary’s Python hacking course is completely online, making it easy for students to complete the course at their own convenience. The course takes a little more than one hour, which means it can easily be completed in one day. For students pressed for time, the smaller, digestible modules make it easy to take a break and complete the course during the course of a few days.
Once students complete Cybrary’s entire course, they’ll earn a Developing Ethical Hacking Tools with Python Certificate of Completion, and understand how to develop their own tools in Python that will help in their cybersecurity assessments.
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My parents bought our first computer when I was 7 years old. This was way back in the mid 1990s. I remember that it came with Windows 95 operating system. It was love at first sight. But it was not long until I started messing around with it outside of its functionality. And, of course, I would break it. At first, they took it to the repair shop, but after, I would just try to fix it myself. That’s how I became very familiar with both the hardware and software part of these devices. Cybersecurity was always something of higher interest to me, but it was only a few years back when I took active steps into getting in the field. Now it has become my full professional attention.
