David Litchfield's Guide To Buffer Overflow Attacks

by David Litchfield

"David Litchfield's Guide to Buffer Overflows is a complete analysis of how buffer overflow attacks are written to exploit software vulnerabilities, and how to defend against such attacks written by the world's foremost Bug Hunter, David Litchfield of NGS Software. Buffer Overflows are the most common and dangerous weapon used by malicious hackers, and have been used in almost all of the most devastating computer attacks to hit the Internet in recent years including SQL Slammer, Blaster, and I Love You attacks. David Litchfield and his company NGS Software are the world's most renowned experts in discovering the software bugs, which are exploited by these Buffer Overflow attacks. Without the research conducted by Litchfield and NGS, the damage causes by each of these attacks would have been even more devastating. For the first time ever, David Litchfield will share in a complete book the tools and techniques used by the NGS team to safeguard the Internet from Buffer Overflow attacks.

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2004

About the author

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David Litchfield is founder and chief research scientist of NGSSoftware Ltd., a UK-based security solutions provider. He has been recognized as the world's premier expert on Oracle database security, and is the designer of NGSSQuirreL, a powerful tool for identifying and assessing database vulnerability. David is a regular conference speaker and has lectured government agencies on security topics.