Ethical Hacking: Buffer Overflow

Pluralsight
Course Summary
Understanding buffer overflows can be very difficult for non-programmers and IT professionals unless someone takes the time to really explain the basics. This course does that by not assuming you are a programmer or computer scientist. This course is part of the Ethical Hacking Series. http://blog.pluralsight.com/learning-path-ethical-hacking
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Course Description
Buffer overflow is a topic that only software developers using low-level programming languages really get an opportunity to fully understand. However, IT security professionals are increasingly called upon to better understand how vulnerabilities created by poor software design and implementation practices can be exploited to create security issues in systems and networks. The problem is that most IT professionals do not have the extensive software development background needed to tackle the subject of buffer overflow. This course breaks down the technical subjects of computer memory management, controlling code, and data inside of a running program, and exploiting poor quality software into terms that IT people with no software development experience can understand. Also examined are ways to prevent buffer overflow conditions and minimize the impact of buffer overflows that do happen. This course is part of the Ethical Hacking Series. http://blog.pluralsight.com/learning-path-ethical-hacking
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Course Syllabus
What Are Buffer Overflows?- 35m 10s
—What Are Buffer Overflows? 6m 52s
—Why Do Buffers Overflow? 7m 56s
—What Happens After a Buffer Overflows? 9m 47s
—How Do You Keep Buffers from Overflowing? 7m 20s
—Summary 3m 12sInside Buffer Overflows- 1h 1m
—Inside Buffer Overflows 8m 25s
—Inside the Stack 6m 46s
—The Stack in Code 6m 56s
—Overflowing the Stack 3m 16s
—Exploiting Stack Overflows 12m 46s
—Inside the Heap 5m 16s
—Exploiting Heap Overflows 7m 20s
—Structured Exception Handling 4m 23s
—Inside Integer Overflows 4m 16s
—Summary 1m 48sFinding Buffer Overflows- 1h 25mMitigating Buffer Overflows- 1h 0m