A comprehensive introduction to the techniques of exploitation and creative problem-solving methods commonly referred to as "hacking." It shows how hackers exploit programs and write exploits, instead of just how to run other people's exploits. This book explains the technical aspects of hacking, including stack based overflows, heap based overflows, string exploits, return-into-libc, shellcode, and cryptographic attacks on 802.11b.

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Do not buy - 2009-12-21
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If you are looking for a hacking book this one is definitely not one. This book is pretty much a C/C++ textbook. The introduction is about hacking and its history. Then author states to become a hacker you need to know how to program and starts going over C/C++ that is pretty much entire book about. You will cover if..else, loops, and general programming techniques. Times from time author releases that this book is about hacking and tries to throw some hacking concepts and programs, which are 100 years old and worthless these days. I mean it is a good thing to get familiar with those to get started but in general all that is history. Many years back when I was in high school I was playing with similar code that was all over the Internet. This book provides nothing new. Oh yes you get a hacking CD with it! The Live Ubuntu CD :) How nice! For those who are lazy to download full Ubuntu... I read this book in 2 days there is nothing new. All those who claim this book is amazing are lamers. If you just started your hacking way, this book might be useful but for someone who has experience with programming this book is worthless. You can learn way more on your own and I wouldn't recommend wasting money.

So basic - 2009-12-04
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Book just describes some basic "hacking" techniques. So basic it hurts.
Every developer should know this basic tech.
SQL injection in web pages? Jou must be joking. Buffer overrun? Ever tried that on an unknown app?

Easy reading, but better spend time leaning assembler. I will find out more about hacking.
It is not that easy anymore in 2010.

Excellent Book - 2010-01-17
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After I read the first edition, I thought to myself that this was the best book on "hacking" that I have ever read. Very practical, technical, useful information for anyone who wants to get started with computer security and learn how "hackers" exploit computer software.

This book was written very well, where each step of the exploitation process was explained and I could follow along and execute the code being discussed in each chapter.

I bought the second edition which has even more material than the first and thought the same thing. Excellent book, must-read for anybody interested in this topic.

In order to get the most out of this book, I would recommend that the reader be familiar with the *nix command line and some experience with C programming.

Excellent Book - 2010-01-15
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This is indeed an excellent book. I would surely recommend this book to anybody needing insights into different hacking methods. I am a graduate student in computer science and I don't think there are too many books on this subject out there that are better than this one.

Thank You - 2009-12-05
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Got here in good time and in great shape. Also a very good book. Haven't dove into it a lot yet but so far I'm loving it!

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