The IDA Pro Book--New from No Starch Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The IDA Pro Book-New from No Starch Press
The Serious Hacker's Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler

San Francisco, CA-The purpose of IDA and other disassembly tools is to
facilitate the understanding of programs when source code is unavailable.
The IDA Pro Book (No Starch Press, August 2008, 640 pages, ISBN
9781593271787) explains every aspect of IDA-the most popular disassembly
tool out there-and is every hacker's guide to realizing the full potential
of this potent reverse engineering tool. Hailed by Ilfak Guilfanov, the
creator of IDA Pro, as the "the most thorough and accurate IDA Pro book,"
it takes readers from the basics of disassembly theory to the complexities
of using IDA in real-world applications.

Written for users encountering IDA for the first time as well as those
trying to take full advantage of IDA's advanced and complex capabilities,
The IDA Pro Book makes sense of this sometimes confounding tool. After
covering the basics of IDA, author Chris Eagle (recent winner of the
DEFCON Capture the Flag contest) moves on to cover scripting and the
creation of compiled plug-ins. He then explains IDA's capabilities and
ways to extend them, as well as IDA's practical, real-world uses.

IDA users have been waiting years for a substantial and helpful book. "If
DEFCON is any indication, this book will be a huge hit with the hacker
community," said No Starch Press publisher Bill Pollock. "We rushed copies
to DEFCON and sold everything we had in two hours, with half of those
books claimed before we even unpacked the boxes. By the following Monday
morning, we were getting emails from readers telling us how helpful they
were finding the book. I haven't seen anything like this demand in
years."

In The IDA Pro Book, readers learn how to: 
•	Identify known library routines, so they can focus their analysis on
other areas of the code      
•	Extend IDA to support new processors and file types, making disassembly
possible for new or obscure architectures 
•	Explore popular plug-ins that make writing IDA scripts easier, allow
collaborative reverse engineering, and much more 
•	Utilize IDA's built-in debugger to tackle obfuscated code that would
defeat a stand-alone disassembler 

While it will still take serious assembly skills to tackle the toughest
executables, The IDA Pro Book allows program analysts everywhere to master
IDA's complexities, so that they can spend more time analyzing and less
time learning to use the tool itself. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Eagle is a senior lecturer at the US Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey, California. He is a co-author of Gray Hat Hacking and has spoken
at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat, DEFCON, ToorCon,
and ShmooCon.  


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Chapter 12, "Library Recognition Using FLIRT Signatures" (PDF):           

http://www.tinker.tv/download/idaPro_ch12.pdf
Table of contents overview: http://www.nostarch.com/idapro_toc.htm
Detailed table of contents (PDF): 
http://www.tinker.tv/download/ida_toc.pdf
Index (PDF): http://www.tinker.tv/download/ida_index.pdf

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