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John Heasman's cybersecurity books

2 books by John Heasman reviewed in our catalog, newest first. Honest takes, who each book is for, and what to read alongside.

AppSec Binary Exploitation Databases Exploitation Offensive Reverse Engineering

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.
Advanced
4/5· Offensive· Binary Exploitation· Reverse Engineering
02 · 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.
Advanced
3/5· Databases· AppSec· Exploitation