Name: Hacking
ISBN: 9781593270070

Hacking

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.

What Hacker News says

ryandvOct 2024

- Neuromancer, William Gibson

- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

- The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

- Anathem, Neal Stephenson

- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

- Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Jon Erickson

- The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

- Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson

- Mystical Qabalah, Dion Fortune

- Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling

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3npNov 2023

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (ISBN 1-59327-007-0), Jon Erickson

Really helped me bridge the gap with low-level, debugging, and C approx half a lifetime ago.

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padraic7aFeb 2020

Ubuntu Security Podcast is a weekly podcast discussing the latest updates and developments from the Ubuntu Security Team. It discusses the weekly bug fixes the team implement which might interest you if you're technical enough. I'm not, and what I like about it is the chattier discussions between the two hosts.

In this episode Joe and Alex discuss their recommended reading list for infosec beginners and practitioners. This section starts at 10:17.

    - Red Team Field Manual | Ben Clark
    - Head First Programming
    - Linux System Administrators Handbook | Nemeth, et al
    - Robert Seacord’s Secure Coding in C/C++
    - CERT Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM)
    - The Code Book | Simon Singh
    - The Tao of Network Security Monitoring: Beyond Intrusion Detection | Richard Bejtlich
    - The Cuckoos Egg | Cliff Stoll
    - Linux Pro Magazine
    - Black Hat Python | Justin Seitz
    - Hacking: The Art Of Exploitation | Jon Erickson

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dabocksterDec 2016

>won't you just pick up the Intel reference manual and flick through it?

The Intel reference manual is incredibly bloated and dry reading. Yeah, it has literally everything you would want to know. But good luck trying to understand all of it in a reasonable amount of time.

I learned x86 while studying buffer overflows in college. We used Hacking: The Art of Exploitation which walked us through most of the core concepts really well.

https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Erickson...

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bubbliciousSep 2014

I would really suggest purchasing a good book about it. From my point of view, I would go for "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition" from Jon Erickson which goes in depth about how to crack programs using gdb and other tools. It's really a wonderful book if you want to learn more about the world of cracking in general, and it doesn't require much prior security experience.

Quick link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-The-Art-Exploitation-Edition/d...

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coldpieMar 2014

Along the same lines, I would also recommend "Hacking" by Jon Erickson.

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