Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Lots of how to break, not a lot of how to fix:

I suppose any book about how to hack software is going to be controversial, but think about it, unless you know what the holes in software are how are you supposed to fix them. Using the right framework isn't enough because every framework is going to have security issues. You actually need to understand what is going on and this is the true value of the book.

The coverage is not just at the bits and bytes level. The authors cover the theory of each exploit and then dig down into what happens at the... more info

Every software developer should have and read this book:

Target Audience
Software developers and network administrators who are responsible for or concerned with the security of the code they write or run.

Contents
This book covers software exploits and how they work.

The book is divided into the following chapters:

Software - The Root Of The Problem; Attack Patterns; Reverse Engineering And Program Understanding; Exploiting Server Software; Exploiting Client Software; Crafting (Malicious) Input; Buffer Overflow; Rootkits; References;... more info

A book that all developers must read:

To be useful, software must respond to events in a predictable manner. The results can then be used as a window to the interior workings of the code, revealing some of the mechanisms of operations, which may be used to find ways to make it fail in a dangerous way. To some, the window is as clear as a six inch thick pane of lead, but to those with a high level of understanding it can be clear, or at the very least serve as a keyhole. This is an allusion to the old detective stories where someone looks... more info