Book Reviews

Writing after a brief hiatus, but all for a good cause. I have been busy pillaging through these two gold mines:

Hacking , The Art of Exploitation — Jon Erickson

Attacking Network Protocols — James Forshaw

I must admit I had read Jon Erickson a while ago and I was pleasantly surprised to still salvage nuggets out of it. Jon is one of the originals, this book is a classic that came out a long time ago and taught the very basics of shell coding. Whatever I have learned so far I have learned from this book and the second book, James Forshaw was an absolute ripper. I thoroughly enjoyed the style and content and he just delivers. The code examples were so clean and elegant, so much so that I experimented with the shellcode building skeleton and adopted it to 32-bit binaries. If you have seen a ton of examples on building shellcodes, this will not be different but its a fresh look and clearly explained. I liked it to be honest.

I was going through these books to glean as much info as possible as part of taking the examination for SLAE32 — Security Tube Linux Assembly Expert 32 bit. I will be writing about the exercises for SLAE32 along with the link to the github repo where I will host the code. So long.