The Shellcoder’s Handbook Second Edition: Discovering andExploiting Security Holes. Kris Kaspersky is a technical writer and the author of CD Cracking Uncovered, Code Optimization, and Hacker Disassembling Uncovered. The book is mostly concerned with arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities,by which we mean bugs. The architecture of modern processors, operating systems,and compilers lends itself toward this kind of problem as the good Countesswrote, “the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations”
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