Black Hat Python: First Edition

by Justin Seitz

The first edition of Black Hat Python by Justin Seitz teaches Python programming in the context of security tool development. The book covers building network sniffers, manipulating packets with Scapy, creating SSH tunnels and proxy tools, building web scrapers for OSINT, developing Burp Suite extensions, crafting trojans with Python, and automating offensive tasks. Each chapter focuses on a practical project that builds a useful security tool from scratch, teaching both Python programming concepts and the underlying networking and security principles. The first edition uses Python 2 and focuses on tools and techniques relevant to its 2014 publication date, but the fundamental approach of teaching offensive Python through project-based learning established the template that the second edition later updated.