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[Article]-Book Review: Gray Hat Python

« on: July 01, 2009, 01:08:16 AM »

Thanks again to Ryan for some great insights into a book many have been asking about on the site. Keep up the good work.

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Review by Ryan Linn, CISSP, MCSE, GPEN

“Gray Hat Python” by Justin Seitz, one of the latest releases from publisher, No Starch Press, focuses on using the Python programming language for reverse engineering. This book is subtitled “Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers” which is fitting as Justin is a member of Immunity Security, makers of the Canvas penetration testing platform and the Immunity Debugger. The foreword by Dave Aitel, Immunity's CEO, is an excellent introduction to why the content of this book is important. It focuses on the short time span that is required from discovery of a bug to exploit, and the necessity for flexible, fast, and collaborative vulnerability discovery and exploit development. Dave does an excellent job in setting the tone for why the information in the book is relevant and what the drive is for these types of tools in the industry.

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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 03:36:19 AM »

Thanks for the review Ryan,

I'd been waiting to see if it lived up to billing. Looks like I'll be adding this to my ever growing pile of things to study.

(p.s. Don, couldn't find a link to the book via the EH-Net Amazon store...)


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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2009, 10:34:00 AM »

Really nice write-up and review, Ryan. Certainly appreciate the feedback on this book.


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Re: [Article]-Book Review: Gray Hat Python

« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 10:47:01 AM »

You're too fast Andrew. It's now there on the EH-Net Amazon Book Store.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes,
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Re: [Article]-Book Review: Gray Hat Python

« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2009, 11:16:36 AM »

Sorry, didn't mean to nag

. Slow day in very warm office means enough time to catch up on articles so I'm running quicker than usual


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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2009, 12:33:50 AM »

Thanks for the review. We have one copy of it at work as we do a lot of the stuff covered in the book. A new coworker who was not so familiar with python and reversing use it quite often to look something up and really likes it.