DESCRIPTION
Writing Security Tools and Exploits will be the foremost authority on vulnerability and security code and will serve as the premier educational reference for security professionals and software developers. The book will have over 600 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of pages to architecture and theory based flaws and exploits, this book will dive right into deep code analysis. Previously undisclosed security research in combination with superior programming techniques will be included in both the Local and Remote Code sections of the book.
The book will be accompanied with a companion Web site containing both commented and uncommented versions of the source code examples presented throughout the book. In addition to the book source code, the CD will also contain a copy of the author-developed Hacker Code Library v1.0. The Hacker Code Library will include multiple attack classes and functions that can be utilized to quickly create security programs and scripts. These classes and functions will simplify exploit and vulnerability tool development to an extent never before possible with publicly available software.
KEY
SELLING POINTS
- Provides readers with working code to develop and modify the most common security tools including Nmap and Nessus.
- Learn to reverse engineer and write exploits for various operating systems, databases, and applications.
- Automate reporting and analysis of security log files.
MARKET
INFORMATION
Software exploits are being created more easily and faster than ever, while attackers are launching more sophisticated attacks for financial gain. Software vulnerabilities and targeted attacks remain a primary area of concern for organizations and individuals. According to the annual “Symantec Security Threat Report” More than 1,237 new vulnerabilities were discovered between January 1 and June 30, 2004, an average of 48 new vulnerabilities per week. Seventy percent of these vulnerabilities were considered easy to exploit, and 96 percent were considered moderately or highly severe. This book will teach readers HOW these exploits were developed, WHY the code was vulnerable to begin with and WHAT they can do to stop the next exploit.
COMPETING
TITLES
Exploiting Software : How to Break Code, Greg Hoglund, Gary McGraw
The Shellcoder’s Handbooks, Jack Koziol, David Litchfield, Dave Aitel, Chris Anley, Sinan "noir" Eren, Neel Mehta, Riley Hassell
The competing titles both focus on exploiting particular operating systems or applications. Writing Security Tools and Exploits goes beyond simply writing exploits and provides readers with a thorough examination complete with working code examples of the fundamental building blocks of software applications, software exploits and customized security tools to defeat future attacks.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
James C. Foster, Fellow, is the Deputy Director of Global Security Solution Development for Computer Sciences Corporation where he is responsible for the vision and development of physical, personnel, and data security solutions. Preceding CSC, Foster was the Director of Research and Development for Foundstone Inc. (acquired by McAfee) and was responsible for all aspects of product, consulting, and corporate R&D initiatives. Prior to joining Foundstone, Foster was an Executive Advisor and Research Scientist with Guardent Inc. (acquired by Verisign) and an adjunct author at Information Security Magazine(acquired by TechTarget), subsequent to working as Security Research Specialist for the Department of Defense. With his core competencies residing in high-tech remote management, international expansion, application security, protocol analysis, and search algorithm technology, Foster has conducted numerous code reviews for commercial OS components, Win32 application assessments, and reviews on commercial-grade cryptography implementations.
Foster is a seasoned speaker and has presented throughout North America at conferences, technology forums, security summits, and research symposiums with highlights at the Microsoft Security Summit, Black Hat Briefings, Black Hat Windows, MIT Wireless Research Forum, SANS, MilCon, TechGov, InfoSec World 2001, and the Thomson Security Conference. He also is commonly asked to comment on pertinent security issues and has been sited in USAToday, Information Security Magazine, Baseline, Computer World, Secure Computing, and the MIT Technologist. Foster holds an A.S., B.S., MBA and numerous technology and management certifications and has attended or conducted research at the Yale School of Business, Harvard University, the University of Maryland, and is currently a Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
Foster is also a well published author with multiple commercial and educational papers; and has authored, contributed, or edited for major publications to include Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-04-3), Hacking Exposed, Fourth Edition, Anti-Hacker Toolkit, Second Edition, Advanced Intrusion Detection, Hacking the Code: ASP.NET Web Application Security (Syngress, ISBN: 1-932266-65-8), Anti-Spam Toolkit, Google Hacking for Penetration Techniques (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-36-1), and Sockets, Shellcode, Porting and Coding (Syngress ISBN: 1-597490-05-9).
TECHNOLOGY
BACKGROUND
Malicious hackers; cyber-criminals; and worm and virus writers have historically had an advantage over security professionals and software developers. Over the past two years, the number of severe software vulnerabilities exploited by these malicious hackers has more than doubled. During the same period, the amount of time from discovery to exploit of software vulnerabilities has decreased by more than 50%. Translation: There are twice as many software vulnerabilities being exploited twice as fast as ever before. The only way for security professionals and software developers to stop this trend is to:
1. Develop applications with fewer vulnerabilities.
2. Discover the vulnerabilities in existing applications before the malicious hackers do.
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