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Title: Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson ISBN: 1-59327-007-0 Publisher: No Starch Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Need to know Assembly
Comment: You have probably heard of such hacking techniques as buffer overflows. Typically, a book might give only cursory explanation, especially if it is not devoted to hacking. But suppose you write in C. Chances are you've inadvertantly created buffer overflows and then spent hours chasing this down, after your program crashed. So how on earth can a deliberate overflow lead to a breakin?
It is for such matters that Erickson expounds here. Written for you, whether you want to create such exploits or prevent them. In either case, the knowledge is the same.
What the book requires is some knowledge of C and assembly. For the latter, it is the language of the Intel x86 family. But even if you don't know it, so long as you are familiar with any assembly language and the theory of a Neumann machine, then you can follow the text.
This book is not for every programmer. It turns out that a fair number of programmers get into the field by learning a high level language like C, Fortran, Java or Pascal. But they never learn any assembly. To them, anything compiled from source is a black box. Instead, you need some background in assembly.
The book also gives neat coverage of how to sniff network traffic and manipulate it. There is a section on cryptography. But for this, it is so specialised and vital that you should consult texts dedicated to it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Judge this book by its cover
Comment: If you can understand what is on the front cover, then you
will probably think the cover in itself is worth the price of
the book.
If you write software, you will find this book fascinating for
its explanation of "buffer overflows" and how they are exploited
by hackers (er, crackers) to take control of other people's
computers.
If you don't write software, then you'll probably have great
difficulty understanding this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best hacking book in the market
Comment: This book is 10 times greater than any other hacking book. It gives useful code and examples rather than 250 pages of theory. Stack and heap overflows are explained in detail as well as many other modern types of exploits. The best part of the book is that it teaches the reader how to write his/her own shellcode and teaches some basic Assembly language along the way. Everything you need to know to be a hacker or stop hackers.
Includes detailed explanations and code for:
buffer / stack / heap based overflows
format string vulnerabilities
writing shellcode
sniffing switched and unswitched networks
tcp / ip hijacking
denial of service
port scanning and tricking port scans of your own computer
password cracking
Man in the middle attacks
Wireless internet security / hacking
and more
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Title: Hacker Disassembling Uncovered by Kris Kaspersky, Natalia Tarkova, Julie Laing ISBN: 1931769222 Publisher: A-List Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Exploiting Software : How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund, Gary McGraw ISBN: 0201786958 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Shellcoder's Handbook : Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes by Jack Koziol, David Litchfield, Dave Aitel, Chris Anley, Sinan "noir" Eren, Neel Mehta, Riley Hassell ISBN: 0764544683 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Security Warrior by Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin ISBN: 0596005458 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: The Art of Assembly Language by Randall Hyde ISBN: 1886411972 Publisher: No Starch Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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