Excerpts from review by Patrick Mueller ... a proficient work...offers a smorgasbord of topics geared towards moderate and advancedlevel practitioners...The authors touch on some deep technical issues, such as automated penetration testing and shellcode exploit construction...great command of the material...[authors] discuss a few refreshingly different topics such as vulnerability disclosure protocols that are hardly covered elsewhere. The authors did...deliver on their ethical obligations to provide accurate countermeasures to attack methods they describe a true value to readers. ... security professionals will find value in the authors` formidable understanding of the material.