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Code-Level Security Mastery: A Guide to Building, Hacking, and Defending Real-World Systems with C and C++
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ISBN13: 9798273669185
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 8 2025
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 8 2025
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
A single line of C or C++ code can lead to a complete system compromise. In a development environment built on high-performance, yet inherently dangerous, languages, how do you ensure your code is resilient enough to withstand sophisticated, code-level attacks?
Code-Level Security Mastery is the definitive, hands-on secure coding guide for C/C++ developers, security researchers, and embedded systems engineers. This book is built on the single, core philosophy: Build, Hack, and Defend. You cannot truly secure a system until you understand how to break it. This guide gives you the complete 360-degree perspective to write bulletproof C++ code, find critical vulnerabilities, and implement modern defenses.
Code-Level Security Mastery is the definitive, hands-on secure coding guide for C/C++ developers, security researchers, and embedded systems engineers. This book is built on the single, core philosophy: Build, Hack, and Defend. You cannot truly secure a system until you understand how to break it. This guide gives you the complete 360-degree perspective to write bulletproof C++ code, find critical vulnerabilities, and implement modern defenses.
Stop treating software security as an afterthought. This is a practical manual that moves beyond high-level abstractions, getting you in the code, in the debugger, and in the memory.
Inside this ethical hacking guide, you will learn to master the following essential memory corruption topics:
Building C++ Safety: Master RAII and smart pointers to systematically eliminate memory leaks and use-after-free bugs.
Smashing the Stack: Set up a secure lab environment and learn the mechanics of stack overflow and heap corruption exploits.
Hijacking Control Flow: Go beyond C-style bugs to perform advanced C++ attacks, including Use-After-Free (UAF) and vtable hijacking.
Defeating ASLR & DEP: Understand precisely how ASLR and DEP work to stop code injection, and how attackers use information leaks and ROP (Return-Oriented Programming) to bypass them.
Automated Security: Integrate a Secure Development Lifecycle using static analysis (SAST) and fuzzing with tools like AFL and libFuzzer.
Whether you are pursuing a career in vulnerability research or aiming to build the most secure systems possible, this book provides the comprehensive, code-level expertise you need.
Stop developing vulnerable code, master code-level security today.
Inside this ethical hacking guide, you will learn to master the following essential memory corruption topics:
Building C++ Safety: Master RAII and smart pointers to systematically eliminate memory leaks and use-after-free bugs.
Smashing the Stack: Set up a secure lab environment and learn the mechanics of stack overflow and heap corruption exploits.
Hijacking Control Flow: Go beyond C-style bugs to perform advanced C++ attacks, including Use-After-Free (UAF) and vtable hijacking.
Defeating ASLR & DEP: Understand precisely how ASLR and DEP work to stop code injection, and how attackers use information leaks and ROP (Return-Oriented Programming) to bypass them.
Automated Security: Integrate a Secure Development Lifecycle using static analysis (SAST) and fuzzing with tools like AFL and libFuzzer.
Whether you are pursuing a career in vulnerability research or aiming to build the most secure systems possible, this book provides the comprehensive, code-level expertise you need.
Stop developing vulnerable code, master code-level security today.
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