Assembly Primer for Hackers (Part 1) System Organization

Assembly language is probably the most important thing one needs to master if he desires to enter the world of code exploitation, virus writing and reverse engineering. In this multi-part video series I will try to provide a simple primer to Assembly language which will help you get started. These videos are in no way meant to be exhaustive but rather will only act as a guide on how to begin.

In this first part, I explain the basics of computer organization, CPU registers - general purpose, segment and instruction pointer. Also covered is  virtual memory organization, program memory organization, program stack and stack operations.

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net