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Elinor Mills Abreu Reuters' correspondent 'Police investigators study how criminals think and act. Military strategists learn about the enemy's tactics, as well as their weapons and personnel capabilities. Similarly, information security professionals need to study their criminals and enemies, so we can tell the difference between popguns and weapons of mass destruction. This book is a significant advance in helping the white hats' understand how the black hats' operate. Through extensive examples and attack patterns,' this book helps the reader understand how attackers analyze software and use the results of the analysis to attack systems.

Hoglund and McGraw explain not only how hackers attack servers, but also how malicious server operators can attack clients and how each can protect themselves from the other. An excellent book for practicing security engineers, and an ideal book for an undergraduate class in software security. It illustrates general principles for breaking software, and provides you a whirlwind tour of techniques for finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, along with detailed examples from real software exploits.

Exploiting Software is essential reading for anyone responsible for placing software in a hostile environmentthat is, everyone who writes or installs programs that run on the Internet. Dave Evans, Ph. Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia 'The root cause for most of today's Internet hacker exploits and malicious software outbreaks are buggy software and faulty security software deployment.

In Exploiting Software, Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw help us in an interesting and provocative way to better defend ourselves against malicious hacker attacks on those software loopholes. The information in this book is an essential reference that needs to be understood, digested, and aggressively addressed by IT and information security professionals everywhere.

It also discusses how to find these problems before the bad folks do. A valuable addition to every programmer's and security person's library! Matt Bishop, Ph. Professor of Computer Science University of California at Davis Author of Computer Security: Art and Science 'Whether we slept through software engineering classes or paid attention, those of us who build things remain responsible for achieving meaningful and measurable vulnerability reductions. If you can't afford to stop all software manufacturing to teach your engineers how to build secure software from the ground up, you should at least increase awareness in your organization by demanding that they read Exploiting Software.

This book clearly demonstrates what happens to broken software in the wild. If you worry about software and application vulnerability, Exploiting Software is a must-read. This book gets at all the timely and important issues surrounding software security in a technical, but still highly readable and engaging, way. Hoglund and McGraw have done an excellent job of picking out the major ideas in software exploit and nicely organizing them to make sense of the software security jungle.

George Cybenko, Ph. It starts with a simple story, telling about hacks and cracks. It draws you in with anecdotes, but builds from there. In a few chapters you find yourself deep in the intimate details of software security. It is the rare technical book that is a readable and enjoyable primer but has the substance to remain on your shelf as a reference. Wonderful stuff. Background Citations. Methods Citations. Results Citations. Figures, Tables, and Topics from this paper.

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