Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition by Jon Erickson (PDF)

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Hacking is the art of creative problem solving, whether that means finding an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or exploiting holes in sloppy programming. Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation needed to really push the envelope.Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques actually work. To share the art and science of hacking in a way that is accessible to everyone, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition introduces the fundamentals of C programming from a hacker’s perspective.The included LiveCD provides a complete Linux programming and debugging environment—all without modifying your current operating system. Use it to follow along with the book’s examples as you fill gaps in your knowledge and explore hacking techniques on your own. Get your hands dirty debugging code, overflowing buffers, hijacking network communications, bypassing protections, exploiting cryptographic weaknesses, and perhaps even inventing new exploits. This book will teach you how to:– Program computers using C, assembly language, and shell scripts– Corrupt system memory to run arbitrary code using buffer overflows and format strings– Inspect processor registers and system memory with a debugger to gain a real understanding of what is happening– Outsmart common security measures like nonexecutable stacks and intrusion detection systems– Gain access to a remote server using port-binding or connect-back shellcode, and alter a server’s logging behavior to hide your presence– Redirect network traffic, conceal open ports, and hijack TCP connections– Crack encrypted wireless traffic using the FMS attack, and speed up brute-force attacks using a password probability matrixHackers are always pushing the boundaries, investigating the unknown, and evolving their art. Even if you don’t already know how to program, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition will give you a complete picture of programming, machine architecture, network communications, and existing hacking techniques. Combine this knowledge with the included Linux environment, and all you need is your own creativity.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review “A book this good is a rare find, and certainly worth the read for any individual interested in security. Rating: 9/10″—Slashdot”We can surely say that this book is one of the essential hacking books of all time.”—Hackerzzz”This book does a great job of covering C programming, assembly programming, vulnerability discovery, and exploitation all in one. If you are going to read only one book, start here.”—Dino Dai Zovi”Anyone can read this book to get a good understanding of how network hacking was started . . . if you want to know early 20’s hacking theories, this book is for you!”—Mic Johnson, Latest Hacking News, “Five Best Hacking Books That Are Still Relevant in 2021″”Like all good books, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition encourages you to get your hands dirty. Each chapter focuses on a series of examples with finely worded guidance from Erickson. It’s not a beast of a read either; it is highly accessible with an emphasis on allowing practice of the examples rather than drowning the reader in hacking theory.”—The Register”With especially clear coverage of heap and stack overflows, this book not only explains what’s involved in hacking, but walks readers through common tools and techniques.”—InformIT”A security professional’s paradise, burrowing down to the code level of dozens of different loopholes and explaining the underlying logic behind the attacks.”—GeekDad on Wired.com”This is a good book. It does a great job of first establishing the mindset of a hacker and then walking the reader step by step through the various techniques of finding interesting ways to solve problems. This in itself is what the author claims is the defining characteristic of a hacker, and I agree.”—;login: The USENIX Magazine”This book will take any programmer well beyond the usual programming techniques covered in conventional programming books.”—Electronic Design”Those whose jobs are to protect computer systems and applications must understand these flaws and techniques in order to fix, prevent and protect against them. This does not only apply to computing, but to any other field where a ‘bad guy’ can take advantage of a system for their own selfish reasons. Once knowledge has been released, it becomes very difficult to put it back in its box. This book is just knowledge wrapped in a different package. We recommend you strongly consider this title if you would like to enter this field or add to your repertoire.”—Gizmos for Geeks”Jon Erickson has completed the second edition of his seminal work, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, adding a significant amount of text to the original work. In doing so, he has created a work that will quickly become a “go-to” guide for anyone wanting to learn hacking, or who wants to understand the hacking mindset.”—Blogcritics.org”Personally, this is a book I am extremely glad to own. I see it as a powerful tool in the arsenal of both sysadmins and developers alike in guarding their applications and systems from these attacks, as well as understanding what to look for, how they can happen, and the mindset of those trying them out.”—Cory Foy, software developer”This fantastic little book – actually not so little anymore at 488 pages – is a real gem for the serious code geek, or those in search of their inner code geek.”—The IT Security Guy”I now recommend this book for the Exploitation chapter alone. This chapter covers buffer and function overflows and the format string vulnerability. Buy the book and discover why strings should be formatted like this:printf(“%s”, text);and never like this:printf(text);”—Linux Pro Magazine”Probably the most detailed, thorough, and lucid coverage of ‘the fundamental techniques of serious hacking.'”—Major Keary, Linux and Open Source SIG”The most important book on a real hacker’s library. . . . I like to think that this book resembles the Holy Grail of Hacking.”—Sudo Realm”Hacking: The Art of Exploitation will cover everything you need to know, however this book is extremely technical and seriously in depth, definitely not for script kiddies. Starts simple and ramps up very fast. I give five stars and a (black) hat off.”—quotebot About the Author Jon Erickson has a formal education in computer science and speaks frequently at computer security conferences around the world. He works as a cryptologist and security specialist in Northern California.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐it is very useful and will help you to understanding better

⭐The easiest way to sum up this book is simply “wow.” Erickson discusses the fundamentals of exploits (hacks) on local machines and remote machines, and also hits on a bit of cryptology. The meat of book is sandwiched by something of an inner dialogue and history of hacking, which alone are worth the cost of the book. This book is not for the layman or the faint of heart- you have to know how to write code, and you have to at least know how to read Intel x86 assembly, if not write it. It also doesn’t hurt to know how programs are actually executed- beyond just double-clicking an icon- I’m talking about stacks and heaps and everything else. The second chapter is possibly the most elegant summary of programming and the C language I have ever seen, ever, but nothing beats a few years “in the trenches.”So once you’ve refreshed your basics of programming, Erickson gets right into it, discussing buffer overflows. He builds up from the most simple concepts into more and more complicated tools- which seems to be exactly how we have arrived at modern exploits; the hackers and the anti-hackers have been co-evolving over the years. Next comes hacking remote machines, including how to cover your tracks- which I found to be some of the most devious ideas presented. If you take your time, and run some of the exploits yourself on the included CD, you will come away with an incredible knowledge of how many exploits work from their most fundamental level. If you’re anything like me, you will enjoy the “hunt” of trying to counter the exploit before Erickson explains the solution. Also, if you’re anything like me, you will walk away from the book shaking your head at the rut called ASCII that we’ve worked ourselves into. I think this is another one of those books that needs to be on a mandatory reading list for all CS bachelors degree. It seems to me that most of the exploits wouldn’t be a problem if programmers were a bit more diligent in their coding. strcpy() is your enemy, strncpy() is your friend. Always always ALWAYS be 100% suspicious of any input supplied from a user- check for illegal characters. Instead of if(functionThatReturnsTrue), try if(functionThatReturnsTrue == True). The list goes on and on. Computers do only what they are told, and if you leave a hole in your program that allows someone else to tell the computer what to do to save yourself the second or two it takes to hit a few more keys, well then you deserve to be hacked and summarily lose your job. Due diligence: do it- maybe then the real engineering disciplines won’t be so mad when code monkeys call themselves engineers. From what I can gather, the first edition was too terse. I think the second edition was a bit long-winded at times. And there’s no discussion of hacking a Windows machine. However, this is still by far the best general hacking book out there.

⭐The book is in a good condition

⭐Prerequisites:::[+] Some programming experience in a C, C++, or Obj-C – or in a C based, garbage collected language (C#, Java)::[+] You should be familiar with compilers and know how a compiler works::[+] You should have a strong desire to learn, and you have to be ready to go slow with the book so that you can practice your programming as you go along. Actually using the code while you’re reading is the only true way to understand it.Covers: A good lesson in C, ASCII – x86 Assembly – Base10, Base8, Base16, Base2 [Decimal, Octal, Hexadecimal, Binary]- and how to convert between them, Networking, Sockets, many many many different Wireless attacks, buffer overflows, printf exploits, assembly language with intel syntax, packet sniffing, TCP flags (ack, urg, psh, rst, syn, fin), ARP Cache poisoning, how to build a simple web server, GDB debugging, what an HTTP GET request looks like and what telnet can be used for, memory management, how to write all sorts of shellcode(shell spawn, uid=0[root],port bind,duplicate file descriptors, connect back, ) , counter measures, the stack vs the heap[dynamic memory], what a return pointer is and why you might want to overwrite it, stack pointer, registers [EAX], public key infrastructure, RSA, OSI model, TCP/IP Packet analysis, big O notation, how to analyze an algorithm, denial of service, exploit writing, and all sorts of cool hacker stuffz, sez everywun!Cons:~::[-] Some of the functions used in this book have since been deprecated. They are still featured, but should not be used in new code. Some of these functions are:–+> inet_aton(), inet_ntoa() {should be replaced with inet_pton(), inet_atop()}–+> gethostbyname(), and another one I can’t think of right now. {replace with getaddrinfo()}–+> Possibly other functions, I can’t remember.~::[-] The CD is made for a 32bit processor, not a 64 bit processor – it won’t work on a 64bit CPU.Seriously, every hacker should have this text. Everybody should read this book. It is a damn masterpiece. If you’ve not yet read it, I’m serious that you can learn from it. It will be very hard for noobies to understand this in one read. Seasoned programmers may even struggle a little bit, but most of them should be able to handle this with breeze.

⭐The techniques themseves and the systems at which they are targeted are (largely) long gone, but it is a great introduction to the basic techniques. For those worried about the fact that the CD is out of date, I found it was straightforward to get hold online and upload the required software (VirtualBox and the book code) at no cost.

⭐This book is like no other book in its field/segment/genre whatever you want to call it, this book won’t “dummy” guide you through already made up stuff, that will turn you into a BOT.This book lays ground and rules to think and develop your skills outside of what you have been taught, it teaches you in a way that will let you evolve further without the book, and in no time you will be developing your own exploits, this book would be only worth for its programming side, it is that good.It comes with a a linux distro with some tools you can use, I have decided to use my own linux distro, but further in the book, it is advised to use the one provided by the book, because, some exploits have already been patched in later distributions, and all of the exploits and tools work on the one provided by the book.Also the package was adequate and it came in excellent condition.Absolutely recommended, although not recommended for someone with very little computer knowledge, or someone that have never written a line of code before, if that is your case this will be very difficult to pick up.

⭐The book was full of fingerprints. Whos eating and then grabbing books at amazon? Its ironic as well, fingerprints on a book about hacking.

⭐I will give it 3 stars just because of the errors that I get when booting the CD. It seems that the version of the Ubuntu is just old, however, they could have made newer CDs with up to date environment.I am not rating the book as the content!

⭐If your not familiar with C++ this books not recommended as it goes through binary exploit and c++ compiling with code.

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