Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, And Coding

Foster (Computer Sciences Corp.) and Price (McAfee) explain how to code with the Nessus Attack Scripting language (NASL), and program Berkeley software distribution (BSD), Windows, and Java sockets that will provide secure network connections. The book then addresses applications that will run on different operating systems, writing shell code for penetration testing, and the methods hackers use to exploit format string, TCP/IP, and buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Distributed in the U.S. by O'Reilly. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

James C. Foster, Fellow, is the Deputy Director of Global Security Solution Development for Computer Sciences Corporation where he is responsible for the vision and development of physical, personnel, and data security solutions. Preceding CSC, Foster was the Director of Research and Development for Foundstone Inc. and was responsible for all aspects of product, consulting, and corporate R&D initiatives. Prior to joining Foundstone, Foster was an Executive Advisor and Research Scientist with Guardent Inc. and an adjunct author at Information Security Magazine, subsequent to working as Security Research Specialist for the Department of Defense. Foster is also a well published author with multiple commercial and educational papers; and has authored, contributed, or edited for major publications to include Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-04-3), Hacking Exposed, Fourth Edition, Anti-Hacker Toolkit, Second Edition, Advanced Intrusion Detection, Hacking the Code: ASP.NET Web Application Security (Syngress, ISBN: 1-932266-65-8), Anti-Spam Toolkit, Google Hacking for Penetration Techniques (Syngress, ISBN: 1-931836-36-1), and Sockets, Shellcode, Porting and Coding (Syngress ISBN: 1-597490-05-9).