Writing Security Tools and Exploits |  | Author: James C. Foster
Publisher: Syngress
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 523267
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 650
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 1.4
ISBN: 1597499978
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9781597499972
ASIN: 1597499978
Publication Date: March 11, 2006
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Product Description
Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of pages to architecture and theory based flaws and exploits, this book will dive right into deep code analysis. Previously undisclosed security research in combination with superior programming techniques will be included in both the Local and Remote Code sections of the book.
The book will be accompanied with a companion Web site containing both commented and uncommented versions of the source code examples presented throughout the book. In addition to the book source code, the CD will also contain a copy of the author-developed Hacker Code Library v1.0. The Hacker Code Library will include multiple attack classes and functions that can be utilized to quickly create security programs and scripts. These classes and functions will simplify exploit and vulnerability tool development to an extent never before possible with publicly available software.
* Provides readers with working code to develop and modify the most common security tools including Nmap and Nessus
* Learn to reverse engineer and write exploits for various operating systems, databases, and applications
* Automate reporting and analysis of security log files
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 Great Book Examines Security Exploitation April 25, 2006
Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are an IT professional that needs to learn more about security exploitation and how people can get in and abuse your system, this is a great book for this purpose. Very technical book, not for beginners!!
If you work in IT and want to learn about how to keep the hackers out, this text is a worthwhile read for you
**** RECOMMENDED
 Excellent Book, but disappointing. . . December 29, 2005
Marco De Vivo (Miami, Florida United States)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Would like just to tell how good this book is (and it is indeed), but I am very disappointed by the fact that no CD is actually included and the companion Web site doesn't seem to exist either. !!
The Editorial review claims:
"The book is accompanied with a companion Web site containing both commented and uncommented versions of the source code examples presented throughout the book. In addition to the book source code, the CD also contains a copy of the author-developed Hacker Code Library v1.0."
Well, sorrily, that's NOT true.
Perhaps this confusion is due to changes resulting from the merge of Syngress with ORA, but still not fair with buyers.
Otherwise, if you, like me, are a researcher (or just interested) in the "secure code" area, then buy the book in spite of all.
By far it is the very best book written about these issues. Best in the sense of most useful. Well designed organized, with in deep study of vulnerabilities and associated exploit codes. Shellcode is explained in a rich and fresh way and the Why, How and When of shellcode are explained under an integrated framework.
NASL and MSF are explained and used in detailed and useful examples, and IMHO, this book presents the most easy, clear and condensed explanation about the Race Conditions, Format Strings, and Buffer Overflows problems I ever read yet.
Warning: Not an entry level book. You need to be familiar with several software and hardware architecture concepts to obtain full benefits from it.
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