This book outlines — in plain English — computer hacker tricks and techniques that you can use to assess the security of your information systems, find the security vulnerabilities that matter, and fix the weaknesses before criminal hackers and malicious users take advantage of them. This hacking is the professional, aboveboard, and legal type of security testing — which I call ethical hacking throughout the book.
The goal of this book is to help produce more highly skilled security professionals who are dedicated to protecting against malicious hacking activity. It has been proven overandover again that it is important to understand one’ senemies , including their tactics,skills,tools,and motivations. Corporations and nations have enemies that are very dedicated and talented. We must work together to understand the enemies’ processes and procedures to ensure that we can properly thwart their destructive and malicious behavior.
With this book, you can increase your knowledge about antivirus products and reverse-engineering in general; while the reverse-engineering techniques and tools discussed in this book are applied to antivirus software, they can also be used with any other software products. Security researchers, penetration testers, and other information security professionals can benefi t from this book. Antivirus developers will benefi t as well because they will learn more about how antivirus products are analyzed, how they can be broken into parts, and how to prevent it from being broken or make it harder to break.
