Great book for helping with shell code analysis

I needed a good book to help me with a security lab class where we wrote and examined shell code to exploit applications. I had little ASM experience and this book helped a lot. The book is the most up to date assembly book I could find, covering 64 bit architectures and more. If you need to understand how assembly works to write shell code I would highly reccomend this book. The section on understanding the stack is very useful to understand how to exploit applications and why these exploits work. The only drawback that I see to this book is the price, it is very expensive. I feel that ASM is a pretty highly specialized area which justifies the price.

Other Reviews

• mov Over 32 Bit, here is 64
• Great material, but basic
• Great book for helping with shell code analysis
• New to Assembly - This is a keeper!