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From exposition to exploit: One security book's story |
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Source: TechTarget - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Even prior to its release in May, The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes drew attention to the exploitive nature of the narrative. In a series of e-mail exchanges, lead author Jack Koziol explains the motive behind this how-to for hackers and what's happened since it hit bookshelves. Koziol, senior instructor and security program manager at the InfoSec Institute, co-authored the book with David Litchfield, Dave Aitel, Chris Anley, Sinan Eren, Neel Mehta and Riley Hassell. . . .
Even prior to its release in May, The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes drew attention to the exploitive nature of the narrative. In a series of e-mail exchanges, lead author Jack Koziol explains the motive behind this how-to for hackers and what's happened since it hit bookshelves. Koziol, senior instructor and security program manager at the InfoSec Institute, co-authored the book with David Litchfield, Dave Aitel, Chris Anley, Sinan Eren, Neel Mehta and Riley Hassell. Why write this book? And why now? While security researchers with good intentions find most of the thousands of vulnerabilities discovered every year, an increasing number of exploitable security holes are found by persons with malicious intentions; as evidenced by the recent Microsoft ntdll.dll and Linux do_brk kernel overflows. The goal of Shellcoder's is to arm software developers and security pros with the same skills that malicious hackers already have, so they can start to identify these lurking security holes to better secure their organizations and customers.
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