本书由 Immunity 公司的高级安全研究员 Justin Seitz 精心撰写。作者根据自己在安全界，特别是渗透测试领域的几十年经验，向读者介绍了 Python 如何被用在黑客和渗透测试的各个领域，从基本的网络扫描到数据包捕获，从 Web 爬虫到编写 Burp 扩展工具，从编写木马到权限提升等。(The book is written by Justin Seitz, a senior security researcher at Immunity company. Based on his decades of experience in the security community, especially in the field of penetration testing, the author introduces how Python is used in various fields of hacker and penetration testing, from basic network scanning to packet capture, from Web crawler to Burp extension tool, from writing Trojan to privilege escalation, and so on.)