On: Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)

[bluedino]

Another good book is 'Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering'

Books like that should be required reading when learning C. It shows you so much that the typical book won't cover.

[tekstar → bluedino]

Yes! What it taught me was, to master a layer of abstraction, learn the layer it sits on top of as well.

[nanidin → bluedino]

I'm particular to "Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel". The more you understand about the system you're running on, the more you can do!