Book reviews

This week I managed to read Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro. I was pretty curious about the book because it's the first book specifically about everyone's favourite disassembler IDA Pro and it turned out to be very different from what I expected.

Co-authored by Dan Kaminsky (editor), Justin Ferguson, Jason Larsen, Luis Miras, and Walter Pearce, Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro sets out to give an introduction to IDA Pro and how to use it to reverse engineer software. The book is approximately 310 pages long and divided into nine chapters ("Introduction", "Assembly and Reverse Engineering Basics", "Portable Executable and Executable and Linking Formats", "Walkthroughs One and Two", "Debugging", "Anti-Reversing", "Walkthrough Four", "Advanced Walkthrough", "IDA Scripting and Plug-Ins").

Hi everyone and welcome to another post in my favourite blog entry category: Book Reviews. I'm happy to announce that for the first time ever I have actually managed to read a book and write a review of it before its official release (unlike my other reviews where I often review three year old books). I'm talking about Adam Shostack's and Andrew Stewart's new book The New School of Information Security here which will be released tomorrow.

The New School of Information Security is a weird book. From the title of the book you'd think that this is a book about information security for people who have at least some kind of clue about information security. I mean why would people that do not have a clue about information security read a book about reforming and improving the field of information security? Unfortunately this assumption is wrong.

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