Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

What it is about

Jon Erickson teaches exploitation from the machine upward: C programming, memory, debugging, stack behavior, shellcode, permissions, network protocols, cryptography, and countermeasures. The demonstrations connect vulnerabilities to the exact bytes and assumptions that make them possible. Its place here is personal: I want the argument to meet the life I am actually living.

Why I keep it

How the machine is broken into, to understand how it is built.

Key ideas

Beside it on the shelf · Software & Systems