Anyone know how good these books are?

superMAUS · 05-09-2014, 07:09 AM

So Im ordering the following books:

The Art of x86 Assembly
A guide to kernel exploitation: Attacking the core

Anyone actually know how good these books are though?

xornull · 05-09-2014, 07:17 AM

I'm reading the first one, it's pretty good!
Dunno about the second one.

here are my favorite books:

The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System
Windows Via C/C++ Fifth edition

superMAUS · 05-09-2014, 08:04 AM

(05-09-2014, 07:17 AM)xornull Wrote: I'm reading the first one, it's pretty good!
Dunno about the second one.

here are my favorite books:

The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System
Windows Via C/C++ Fifth edition

Number one looks pretty good thanks for the referral. Whereas I can use C for automation on Linux I can only see myself using it on Windows for malware and servers generally run Linux. Not really interested in hacking personal computers.

xornull · 05-09-2014, 08:17 AM

The second book is pretty good to gain knowledge on windows itself plus it gives code samples,
it's a pretty big book with lots of info in it and It helped me a lot, there are many books on windows but most of them are very old, by far this one is the newest, released just before win7

Alan Turing · 05-09-2014, 11:41 AM

wikibooks has a good starter guide to x86 Assembly

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly

I wouldn't necessarily read the second one after though, because one book won't help you enough probably.

superMAUS · 05-09-2014, 03:22 PM

(05-09-2014, 11:41 AM)Kosaki Wrote: wikibooks has a good starter guide to x86 Assembly

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly

I wouldn't necessarily read the second one after though, because one book won't help you enough probably.

I am not completely ignorant when it comes to assembly and I understand memory management to some degree, it not as if this is the first Ill ever read Smile

All references to books are good though so I thank you for that!

misnar · 05-09-2014, 06:38 PM

Both of these are great books, and the first is my favorite book for teaching assembler. Definitely recommend them.

superMAUS · 05-10-2014, 01:21 AM

(05-09-2014, 06:38 PM)misnar Wrote: Both of these are great books, and the first is my favorite book for teaching assembler. Definitely recommend them.

Yah, very excited to get these :p