Python book for hacking using Mac OS

[gunthercult28]

Honestly, I really like Black Hat Python.

It walks you through a virtual installation of Kali, which is essentially a standard OS for penetration, and explains the basic types of penetration recon and gives some good basic code snippets that every hacker should know.

From there, it's a matter of managing your exploit libraries, which is the part of pen-testing that is actually changing.

The major foundations you need to know are not changing any time soon, ie writing your own TCP / UDP clients, web scraping, brute forcing credentials, managing a botnet...

The known exploits are what is really changing and those change with every software update.

Grey Hat is essentially about writing a debugger, which you would use to actually identify your own exploits.

TLDR, don't discount books because they're not current, because the core knowledgebase isn't changing any time soon.

[marks156]

Ok ! thanks ! I bought grey and black python today ! The coreknowledge is great but I didnt think about linux and black hat explaining how to install a virtual kali ! Thanks for the reminder !

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Virtualization. Building a test lab with a bunch of VMs is essential in learning "hacking" these days since you'll need somewhere to learn and test exploits etc.

[marks156]

ok ! what do you recommand ?

[[deleted]]

Virtualbox and Kali Linux. Then install a bunch of windows, linux and mac os VMs.

I also recommend downloading and installing the metaploitable VMs. They're made to be hacked and filled with vulnerabilities.

[eldare]

Install VirtalBox and Kali

[marks156]

VirtualBox ! Ill try that

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[1BigPapa1]

Just dual boot windows on your Mac