Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
Author: Jon Erickson
Hacking is the art of creative problem solving, whether that means finding an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or exploiting holes in sloppy programming. Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation needed to really push the envelope.
Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques actually work. To share the art and science of hacking in a way that is accessible to everyone, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition introduces the fundamentals of C programming from a hacker's perspective.
The included LiveCD provides a complete Linux programming and debugging environment-all without modifying your current operating system. Use it to follow along with the book's examples as you fill gaps in your knowledge and explore hacking techniques on your own. Get your hands dirty debugging code, overflowing buffers, hijacking network communications, bypassing protections, exploiting cryptographic weaknesses, and perhaps even inventing new exploits. This book will teach you how to:
- Program computers using C, assembly language, and shell scripts
- Corrupt system memory to run arbitrary code using buffer overflows and format strings
- Inspect processor registers and system memory with a debugger to gain a real understanding of what is happening
- Outsmart common security measures like nonexecutable stacks and intrusion detection systems
- Gain access to a remote server using port-binding or connect-back shellcode, and alter a server's logging behavior to hide your presence
- Redirect network traffic, conceal open ports, and hijack TCP connections
- Crack encrypted wireless traffic using the FMS attack, and speed up brute-force attacks using a password probability matrix
Hackers are always pushing the boundaries, investigating the unknown, and evolving their art. Even if you don't already know how to program, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition will give you a complete picture of programming, machine architecture, network communications, and existing hacking techniques. Combine this knowledge with the included Linux environment, and all you need is your own creativity.
See also: Eating in America or Anne Lindsays New Light Cooking
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
Author: Mike Yankoski
After meals from garbage cans and dumpsters, night after night Mike and Sam found their beds under bridges and on the streets. They were forced to depend on the generosity and kindness of strangers as they panhandled to sustain their existence. For more than five months, the pair experienced firsthand the extreme pains of hunger, the constant uncertainty and danger of living on the streets, exhaustion, depression, and social rejection—and all of this by their own choice. This is their story. Through Mike’s firsthand account, Under the Overpass provides important insight into the truths of the street and calls the younger generation of believers to take great risks of faith to bring Christ’s love to the neediest corners of the world.
“I Am Disgusting.”
Mike Yankoski’s life went from upper-middle class plush to scum-of-the-earth repulsive overnight. By his own choice. From the United States capital to San Diego, Mike and his traveling companion, Sam, journeyed as homeless men for five months. Not for a project or even in response to a dare. He needed to know if his faith in God was real—if he could actually be the Christian he said he was apart from the comforts he’d always known.
So with only a bag on his back, a guitar in his hand, and Sam by his side, he set out. And like any traveler in a foreign land, he returned a different man. Mike’s unusual, captivating, and challenging story will rock your own world…perhaps even change your life.
Pull out quote/sidebar/starburst:
“Thoreau said, ‘Simplify, simplify, simplify!,’ but at that moment Icouldn’t help wondering if I had gone too far.”
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“Mike Yankoski hangs out with alcoholics and drug addicts. He panhandles for bus fare and eats from dumpsters. Yes, he has guts. But he also has faith.”
Dean R. Hirsch
President, World Vision
“Everyone with a beating heart will benefit from reading this book.”
Kim Meeder
Bestselling author of Hope Rising
Story Behind the Book
“Faith is more than just an emphatic ‘Amen’ at the end of the sermon on Sunday morning. Frustrated with the feeling of having strong convictions and yet not being able to do anything about them, I began to understand Paul’s promise of contentment in Christ ‘whether with everything or with nothing.’ What would it look like to give up the comfortable life and live homeless? Is God enough to sustain me? Is He trustworthy? Is He worth staking my life on? What happens if I die? Will I even survive? Such questions rang loudly in my mind as we decided to lay down everything in a full embrace of the homeless life. Some experiences were uncomfortable, some shocking, some disturbing, some hilarious, and still others frustrating, but five months of life on the streets has left us, our faith, and our lives forever changed.”
Publishers Weekly
Yankoski's parents were right: It was crazy to live as a homeless person in six American cities for five months; fortunately, this crazy idea makes for quite a story. Yankoski, a Christian college student, challenges the reader to learn about faith, identify with the poor and find more forgotten, ruined, beautiful people than we ever imagined existed, and more reason to hope in their redemption. The journey begins at a Denver rescue mission and ends on a California beach. Along the way, Yankoski and a friend learn the perils of poor hygiene and the secrets of panhandling. They meet unfortunates like Andrew, who squanders his musical talent to feed his drug habit, and hustlers like Jake, who gives the pair tips about how to look and sound more pitiful to get more money. Yankoski tends to moralize: If we respond to others based on their outward appearance, haven't we entirely missed the point of the Gospel? Still, the book features fine writing (I awoke, rolled over and saw beads of sweat already forming on my arms. Saturday, early morning, Phoenix) and vivid stories, authentically revealing an underworld of need. (Apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
School Library Journal
Adult/High School-As a college student in Santa Barbara, Yankoski was comfortable with his life. However, listening to a Sunday sermon one morning, he began to wonder whether his faith would remain as strong if his privileged upbringing and typical college existence were taken away. So began his decision to put his faith to the test. After discussing his plans with his family and various advisors, he and a friend took a leave of absence from their studies and their middle-class lives to enter the world of the homeless. They spent five months in 2003 on the streets of Denver; Phoenix; Washington, DC; and other cities. Playing their guitars and panhandling, they relied entirely on charity. The harshness, hunger, dangers, and indignities they faced are reported in detail. They formed friendships with other homeless people and watched many of them struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction. Yankoski steers clear of preachy or patronizing tones, and his dry sense of humor makes the book thoroughly readable. Teens will appreciate the frankness with which he approaches the day-to-day challenges and his personal struggles.-Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | 7 | |
| Note to the Reader | 9 | |
| Section 1 | Twenty Minutes Past the World | 11 |
| Payback | ||
| A Flicker of Lightning | ||
| Why Would You Want to Do That? | ||
| The Counsel of Friends | ||
| Enter Sam | ||
| Traveling Papers | ||
| Invitation to the Journey | ||
| Section 2 | Denver | 25 |
| A Long Way from Home | ||
| Cold Turkey | ||
| The Breakfast Club | ||
| Hell Fire | ||
| Exit to Street Level | ||
| Section 3 | Washington, D.C. | 55 |
| The World Is Changed | ||
| You Like Chicken Parmesan? | ||
| Most Important Meal of the Day | ||
| A Song for Pamela | ||
| We Have a Policy | ||
| Cowbell Door Chime | ||
| Like a Child | ||
| Seed Money | ||
| Photo Op | ||
| Section 4 | Portland | 95 |
| The Idea of Comfort | ||
| Worship Under a Bridge | ||
| Sugar Man's Gospel | ||
| Body Basics | ||
| Church Lock Down | ||
| The Stupid, Small Things | ||
| Section 5 | San Francisco | 121 |
| In the Presence of My Enemies | ||
| Bed for the Night | ||
| Wake-Up Call | ||
| You Just Know It's Dark in There | ||
| The Other Jesus Guy | ||
| The Grace of Pizza | ||
| Bloody Sandals | ||
| Berkeley Booh Yah | ||
| Section 6 | Phoenix | 157 |
| We Don't Go to Church | ||
| Return to Forgiveness | ||
| Fix or Fish Sandwich? | ||
| On Begging | ||
| Road Rash Carnival | ||
| Section 7 | San Diego | 181 |
| Shuffling Home | ||
| Old Yellers | ||
| Circle of Light | ||
| Freedom Rings | ||
| Ashes and Snow | ||
| Section 8 | Coming Back to Normal | 209 |
| Wanting More (and More) | ||
| Street Visitor | ||
| Now What? | ||
| The Risk of Your Life | ||
| Acknowledgments | 222 |
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