Book reviews

About two weeks ago I received a copy of Chris Eagle's new book The IDA Pro Book (Official Website / Amazon). The publisher No Starch Press was nice enough to send me a free copy of the book to write a review for it. Thank you No Starch Press. And even though I've sworn the official RE blogger's oath to uphold my blog to the highest journalistic standards, this obviously means that my review is completely biased because I hope that No Starch Press will continue to send me books for free (please contact me for a precise list of the books I'm interested in, thanks in advance).

Anyway, less talk about No Starch Press and more about The IDA Pro Book. Written by Chris Eagle, The IDA Pro Book is the latest book that tries to guide reverse engineers through the exciting world of binary files you've "lost" the source code for. The approximately 580 pages of the book (it's not 640 pages long as claimed on Amazon) are divided into 26 chapters which are themselves grouped into six parts.