Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fourth Edition, 4th Edition

CHAPTER 12

 

Windows Exploits

Up to this point in the book, we have been using Linux as our platform of choice because it is easy for most people interested in hacking to get hold of a Linux machine for experimentation. Many of the interesting bugs you’ll want to exploit, however, are on the more-often-used Windows platform. Luckily, the same bugs can be exploited largely using the same techniques on both Linux and Windows because they are most often both driven by the same instruction set underneath the hood. So in this chapter, we talk about where to get the tools to build Windows exploits, how to use those tools, and then how to launch your exploits against Windows targets.

            In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

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