What are the techniques for exploiting computers today?

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Published on 2010-06-05T19:42:44Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 19:52 UTC
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I've just read "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation" and I'm interested in this subject. The thing is, this book seems irrelevant to hacking now that OSes have non-executable stacks, canary values on the stack, etc.

So, how what methods are used now to exploit computers?

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