Download or read book Gray Hat Hacking the Ethical Hacker's written by Çağatay Şanlı and published by Cagatay Sanli. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why study programming? Ethical gray hat hackers should study programming and learn as much about the subject as possible in order to find vulnerabilities in programs and get them fixed before unethical hackers take advantage of them. It is very much a foot race: if the vulnerability exists, who will find it first? The purpose of this chapter is to give you the survival skills necessary to understand upcoming chapters and later find the holes in software before the black hats do. In this chapter, we cover the following topics: • C programming language • Computer memory • Intel processors • Assembly language basics • Debugging with gdb • Python survival skills