The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

I would first like to thank all of the people that have made this book possible — the (many) authors, of course: Gerardo Richarte, Felix "FX" Linder, John Heasman, Jack Koziol, David Litchfield, Dave Aitel, Sinan Eren, Neel Mehta, and Riley Hassell. Huge thanks are also due to the team at Wiley — our excellent Executive Editor Carol Long and our equally excellent Development Editor Kevin Kent. On a personal note I'd like to thank the team at NGS for a great many hangovers, technical discussions, hangovers, ideas, and hangovers. Finally, I'd like to thank my wife Victoria for her enduring patience, love, and gorgeousness.

—Chris Anley

I would like to thank my friends and family for their unwavering support.

—John Heasman

I would like to thank my friends from Phenoelit, who are still with me despite the turns and detours life takes and despite the strange ideas I have, technical and otherwise. Special thanks in this context go to Mumpi, who is a very good friend and my invaluable support in all kinds of activities. Additional thanks and kudos go to the Recurity Labs team as well as to Halvar Flake, who is responsible for the existence of this team in the first place. Last but not least, I thank Bine for enduring me on a daily basis.

—Felix "FX" Linder

I want to thank those in the community who share what excites them, their ideas and findings, especially the amazing people at Core, past and present, and my pals in the exploit writing team with whom the sudden discovery never ...