The IDA Pro Book -- Reviews

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"If you are looking for the most thorough and accurate IDA Pro book, you are holding it in your hands. The long awaited book from Chris Eagle is packed with tons of information. Beginners will find it helpful because it covers the basics [and] experienced users will discover new and powerful aspects of IDA Pro. Among other things, you will learn how to deal with obfuscated code, analyze new file formats and processors, [and] write plugins and scripts. I wholeheartedly recommend it to all IDA Pro users."
—Ilfak Guilfanov, creator of IDA Pro

"This is the densest, most accurate, and, by far, the best IDA Pro book ever released."
—Pierre Vandevenne, Owner and CEO of DataRescue SA

"Unlike the two other books I've read on IDA Pro this book has no fluff or filler, its solid information! The funny thing when comparing it to the other...IDA books is it's thicker than both combined, and contains an exponentially larger amount of information."
—Eric Hulse, technology blogger (Read More)

"Chris Eagle delivers a very concise, well laid out book in The IDA Pro Book. The step by step examples, and much needed detail of all aspects of IDA alone make this book a good choice...I honestly think, like IDA, it will be the industry standard on one of the more intimidating applications in the security and reverse engineering world."
—Cody Pierce, TippingPoint DVLabs (Read More)

"Chris Eagle is clearly an excellent educator, as he makes the sometimes very dense and technically involved material easy to read and understand and also chooses his examples well."
—Dino Dai Zovi, Trail of Bits blog (Read More)

"Reverse engineering is not for everyone, but it can be a very valuable skillset to develop. It could be a good fit for you or someone on your team if your company deals with targeted malware that’s meant to steal financial, health, or authentication data. Or if you’re interested in vulnerability research and want a job -- there are definitely lucrative positions in that niche of the security industry. Either way, you should take a look at The IDA Pro Book."
—John H. Sawyer, Dark Reading (Read More)

"[T]his book does definitely get a strong buy recommendation from me. It's well written and it covers IDA Pro more comprehensively than any other written document I am aware of (including the actual IDA Pro Manual). Furthermore I'm confident that everybody, even people who used IDA Pro for a decade, will learn something from the book and can use it as a reference in daily work."
—the-interweb.com (Read More)

"Whether you need to solve a tough runtime defect or examine your application security from the inside out, IDA Pro is a great tool and this book is THE guide for coming up to speed."
—Joe Stagner, misfitgeek.com (Read More)

"Chris Eagle's The IDA Pro Book provides a significantly better understanding not of just IDA Pro itself, but of the entire RE process. There are little gems littered throughout the book that bring in real-life experience and knowledge that you don't always get from other books instructing you in the use of an application."
—The Ethical Hacker Network (Read More)

The IDA Pro Book is an "excellent book! Recommended if you are into Reverse Engineering and not only specific for IDA. Well written with lots of examples. Really enjoyed it."
—Reverse Engineering Mac OS X blog (Read More)

"Time-saving, efficiency-increasing, and skill-enhancing, there is little reason for any IDA Pro user to not pick up The IDA Pro Book."
—The Midwest Book Review (Read More)

"I've used otool, objdump, dumpbin, of course PEiD and file very often. These tools have their own chapters. That was somehow surprising, because most IDA documentation I've read directly started at using IDA, without background or anything else. And I always missed that - until now. It broadens the horizon to know which role different tools play and why they're necessary to reach the goal of reversing a binary. So I was pretty amazed, and read along."
—wishinet.blogspot.com (Read More)

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