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  Covert Java: Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineering

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This book has been disowned by Sams Publishing. You will not be able to find the 

code for this book despite the fact that it is only 10 months old, as of January 

2005. The book does not have its own website. Having said all that, I like the 

book itself. There are some very useful techniques. Java, like every development 

language has weaknesses, and if you write code professionally you NEED to know 

what those weaknesses are, because the bad guys know. This book covers many of 

those weaknesses, both for exploiting them and for protecting your software and 

systems from these exploits. There are very valid reasons why this information 

should be available to the entire public. Anyone who has had to deal with 

malicious code knows this to be true. The only way to stop computer viruses, or 

any physical disease for that matter, is education and shared information. This 

book does that. I recently found a very clevor virus on my system that was being 

used by an advertizer. With the information in this book I was able to reverse 

engineer it and figure out how it was exploiting a weakness in the Java Virtual 

Machine of Internet Explorer. Microsoft now has a patch for this security hole, 

by the way. The book is written fairly well but it is geared towards the most 

consise discussion of each topic and is targeted at intermediate to advanced 

developers. However, there are some techniques that are useful to every 

developer. I recently had a job interview and some of the questions I was asked 

came right out of this book.



Table of Contents

	Introduction	1

1	Getting started	5

2	Decompiling classes	13

3	Obfuscating classes	27

4	Hacking non-public methods and variables of a class	43

5	Replacing and patching application classes	51

6	Using effective tracing	63

7	Manipulating Java security	69

8	Snooping the runtime environment	75

9	Cracking code with unorthodox debuggers	81

10	Using profilers for applications runtime analysis	89

11	Load-testing to find and fix scalability problems	105

12	Reverse engineering applications	121

13	Eavesdropping techniques	127

14	Controlling class loading	139

15	Replacing and patching core Java classes	149

16	Intercepting control flow	155

17	Understanding and tweaking bytecode	165

18	Total control with native code patching	185

19	Protecting commercial applications from hacking	201

	A: Commercial software license	227

	B: Resources	233

	C: Quiz answers	239

	Index	249



Product Details



    * ISBN: 0672326388

    * ISBN-13: 9780672326387

    * Format: Paperback, 268pp

    * Publisher: Sams

    * Pub. Date: May 2004



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