Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Excellent security book although misleading title:

The title "Shellcoder's handbook" made me reluctant to even buy this book. I thought it would go about explaining exploiting stack, heap overruns, bypassing memory exploitation methods and so on in order to execute shell code: basically, a book for hacking and I didn't like that. Nonetheless, it took me a glance of the list of authors and the table of contents to realize that this book goes beyond exploitation and into core penetration testing and vulnerability discovery methods. Hopefully, like rational... more info

Yes! The Real Deal is Here!:

Here's how this wonderful learning resource is laid out:

PART 1 INTRO TO EXPLOITATION ON LINUX x86

1) Before You Begin
2) Stack Overflows
3) Shellcode
4) Introduction to Format String Bugs
5) Introduction to Heap Overflows

PART 2 EXPLOITING MORE PLATFORMS: Windows, Solaris, and Tru64

6) The Wild World of Windows
7) Windows Shellcode
8) Windows Overflows
9) Overcoming Filters
10) Introduction to Solaris Exploitation
11) Advanced Solaris Exploitation
12) HP Tru64 Unix... more info

Good material... bad editing:

While the material is good, there are way to many errors. For someone who's looking for the hows and whats of software exploitation, this book comes through. For someone who actually wants to follow their example code... good luck. Errors everywhere! I wonder how this book made it past the editors. I haven't come across a book like this in a long long time. The webpage also lacks much content save for the chapter code, some of which is faulty and will not run properly without modification.

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