Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (edit title/settings)

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• Perl

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• “if you understand the concepts of the core hacking techniques explained in this book, you can apply them in new and inventive ways to solve the problem du jour”

• “The state of computer security is a constantly changing landscape”

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• The EIP register is the Instruction Pointer register, which points to the current instruction the processor is reading.

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• The first four registers (EAX, ECX, EDX, and EBX) are known as general purpose registers. These are called the Accumulator, Counter, Data, and Base registers, respectively.

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• The second four registers (ESP, EBP, ESI, and EDI) are also general purpose registers, but they are sometimes known as pointers and indexes. These stand for Stack Pointer, Base Pointer, Source Index, and Destination Index, respectively.

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• The remaining EFLAGS register actually consists of several bit flags that are used for comparisons and memory segmentations.

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• The lea instruction is an acronym for Load Effective Address

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• assembler is one form of machine-language translator—it is a program that translates assembly language into machine-readable code.

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• Hackers get their edge from knowing how all the pieces interact within this bigger picture.

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• The default size of a single unit is a four-byte unit called a word.

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• Hacking is really just the act of finding a clever and counterintuitive solution to a problem.

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• AT&T syntax and Intel syntax.

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1. Jon Erickson (Author)

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