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

A Bug Hunter's Diary: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security By Tobias Klein
Publisher: No Sta,.,rch Press 2011 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1593273851 | EPUB + PDF | 4 MB + 5 MB

Seemingly single-minded bugs can have drastic consequences, allowing attackers to compose systems, escalate local privileges, and differently wreak havoc on a system.
A Bug Hunter's Diary follows guard expert Tobias Klein as he tracks from a high to a low position and exploits bugs in some of the creation's most popular software, like Apple's iOS, the VLC media player, web browsers, and even the Mac OS X kernel. In this united-of-a-kind account, you'll call on how the developers responsible for these flaws patched the bugs—or failed to reply at all. As you follow Klein without ceasing his journey, you'll gain sea technical knowledge and insight into how hackers approach difficult problems and continued the true joys (and frustrations) of bug chase..