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Chris Anley's cybersecurity books
2 books by Chris Anley reviewed in our catalog, newest first. Honest takes, who each book is for, and what to read alongside.
01 · 2007
The Shellcoder's Handbook
Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes
A foundational text on memory-corruption exploitation across Linux, Windows, Solaris and embedded targets. Pre-modern-mitigations in spirit but still the canonical introduction to the techniques the modern toolchain is built to defeat.
Advanced4/5· Offensive· Binary Exploitation· Reverse Engineering02 · 2005
The Database Hacker's Handbook
Defending Database Servers
Litchfield, Anley, Heasman, and Grindlay's exhaustive 2005 reference on attacking and defending Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, and Informix — the era when the database engine itself was the soft target.
Advanced3/5· Databases· AppSec· Exploitation