A Bug Hunter's Diary: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security 1st Edition

by Tobias Klein (Author)

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Seemingly simple bugs can have drastic consequences, allowing attackers to compromise systems, escalate local privileges, and otherwise wreak havoc on a system.

A Bug Hunter's Diary follows security expert Tobias Klein as he tracks down and exploits bugs in some of the world's most popular software, like Apple's iOS, the VLC media player, web browsers, and even the Mac OS X kernel. In this one-of-a-kind account, you'll see how the developers responsible for these flaws patched the bugs—or failed to respond at all. As you follow Klein on his journey, you'll gain deep technical knowledge and insight into how hackers approach difficult problems and experience the true joys (and frustrations) of bug hunting.

Along the way you'll learn how to:
–Use field-tested techniques to find bugs, like identifying and tracing user input data and reverse engineering
–Exploit vulnerabilities like NULL pointer dereferences, buffer overflows, and type conversion flaws
–Develop proof of concept code that verifies the security flaw
–Report bugs to vendors or third party brokers

A Bug Hunter's Diary is packed with real-world examples of vulnerable code and the custom programs used to find and test bugs. Whether you're hunting bugs for fun, for profit, or to make the world a safer place, you'll learn valuable new skills by looking over the shoulder of a professional bug hunter in action.

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About the Author

Tobias Klein is a security researcher and founder of NESO Security Labs, an information security consulting and research company based in Heilbronn, Germany. He is the author of two information security books published in German by dpunkt.verlag of Heidelberg, Germany.

Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (October 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593273851
ISBN-13: 978-1593273859
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #709,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #34 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Debugging
- #351 in Books > Computers & Technology > Computer Science > Systems Analysis & Design
- #596 in Books > Computers & Technology > Internet & Social Media > Hacking

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Zach Childers

Great stories, super useful for getting a feel for the job

December 31, 2016

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This book is really good for getting a feel for the mindset and process required for vulnerability hunting. He goes over fuzzing techniques, where to look for weak points in application code, and much more.

However, the author is German and the laws in Germany are restrictive against redistributing "hacker code." This means the code samples in the book are usually incomplete, with everything but the exploit mechanism included. Personally for me this was a big drawback, as I find reading source code the best way to learn techniques like these.

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Julio

good but fail on explain how to do

October 10, 2014

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Well its a good book, not excellent because has not steps to do things or present the same case on differents views like "case study" if the book show "how to do.. " like cook book it will be an excellent book but its 4 stars because the book is small and explain many concepts so you need to know previously C debugging, overflow, heap, etc

i think if the book detail more about how to exploit that things it will be excellent

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Primed

Very interesting and detailed

January 27, 2012

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If you're technically-inclined, a security researcher, or just someone who is interested in computer security, chances are you'll love this book. It goes into detail about each vulnerability, in a unique format, explaining the technical details and just about everything you'd need to know. A geek's diary if there ever was one. Hard to put this one down. Recommended read!

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Moshe

Warning: Bug Hunting is Addicting.

March 11, 2013

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TL;DR: If you're interested in bug hunting, this is the book you want.

I read this book after reading TAOSSA and was very impressed. TAOSSA methodically details everything that can go wrong in a program (see Chapter 6). A Bug Hunter's Diary is the perfect followup, showing you the thought process behind bug hunting. After you pick up this book, you'll want to start searching for your own bugs - and you'll likely find some too!

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E.M.

Great book, but require great coding skills to properly absorb it.

November 25, 2013

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This is a very good book. But make sure you have great coding skills in order to take advantage of all that the book can offer. I'm not a coder myself, so I'll have to improve those skills, and get back an re-read this book.

But all in all, it's an excelent book for security professionals/researchers and web application penetration testers.

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Tomas Cejka

Five Stars

January 29, 2017

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Excellent book, easy to read, interesting content. It is inspiring for writing better and resisitant code.

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Scott Piper

How to find bugs

July 21, 2013

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Finding vulnerabilities in software is hard, and although there are a lot of sources for learning the theory of how to do it, this book actually walks you step by step through how the author found some in a variety of software. This is the only book of it's kind (at least as of 2013).

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good book for teaching the thought process.

March 19, 2014

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This is a good look at the thought process involved when looking for bugs in software. The book does not go into all the details, though. This makes it good when trying to teach the process. Other materials can be used to show detailed tool and techniques.

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