Software Hacking explores the tools and techniques used in software piracy.
Summary Of The Book
Developing a great software application involves a lot of intense hard work and a lot of knowledge. Intellectual property rights enable the creator of the software to hold inviolable copyrights on their product. It helps them to earn a return on their hard work by enabling them to sell copies of the software.
Every purchaser has to get a key to the application that asserts that they have bought the application legally and are entitled to use it. But, software piracy is rampant and there are many techniques used to obtain illegal copies of an application, or hack into it and copy the code itself.
This book, Software Hacking, aims to help software developers and government organizations fight piracy by exposing all the numerous techniques used by hackers to break the protection offered by encryption methods and copyright protection schemes.
The reader is taken on a detailed tour of each tool and technique used by hackers to gain access to illegal copies, to let them actually gain access to the underlying code and violate intellectual property rights. It goes into the various tools and products used by developers to protect their code and the methods hackers use to break them.
Software Hacking begins by covering programming concepts, assembly programming and by introducing the hacker's arsenal. The book discusses common protection schemes, the inherent risks, and the solutions, and also explores CD protection schemes.
The authors then explain PE encoding and compression and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of commercial, off-the-shelf software copyright protection tools. They discuss and-disassembling, anti-tracing and anti-debugging tips and tricks.
The book explains cryptography and also shows how various development frameworks can be hacked into and how reverse engineering techniques can be used to gain access to the code. The book thoroughly familiarizes the reader with the many techniques and tools used in software piracy.
About The Authors
Ankit Fadia is a renowned computer security expert and writer.
Other books by Ankit Fadia - The Ethical Hacking Guide To Corporate Security, Network Security,A Hackers Perspective, Even You Can Hack: E-mail Hacking, and How To Unblock Everything On The Internet.
He writes books on computer security and hacking.
Ankit Fadia published his first book, The Unofficial Guide To Computer Hacking when he was just 14. The book sold around three million copies around the world and has been translated into 11 languages. After the 9/11 attacks, he cracked an encrypted mail from Al-Qaeda.
He has given numerous talks on digital security and has published a number of books on related topics.
Nishant Das Patnaik is a computer security consultant.
He has co-authored Software Hacking with Ankit Fadia.
Nishant Das Patnaik is a young cyber forensics specialist and security consultant. He is the founder and president of the National Ethical
Hackers' Association. The organization provides computer security services in Odisha and he has also designed the courses for NEHA training division.
