Hacker Disassembling Uncovered: Powerful Techniques To Safeguard Your Programming

Download or read book Hacker Disassembling Uncovered: Powerful Techniques To Safeguard Your Programming written by Kris Kaspersky and published by БХВ-Петербург. This book was released on 2003 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the issues of analyzing and optimizing programs as well as creating the means of protecting information, this guide takes on the programming problem of, once having found holes in a program, how to go about disassembling it without its source code. Covered are the hacking methods used to analyze programs using a debugger and disassembler. These methods include virtual functions, local and global variables, branching, loops, objects and their hierarchy, and mathematical operators. Also covered are methods of fighting disassemblers, self-modifying code in operating systems, and executing code in the stack. Advanced disassembler topics such as optimizing compilers and movable code are discussed as well.