Assembly Primer for Hackers (Part 5) Data Types

This is Part 5 of the "Assembly Language Primer for Hackers" video series. Please begin here with Part 1, if you have not already done so. In this video we will go through an in-depth primer on data types which are used in assembly. We do a live demo on how to look at data in memory using GDB for .ascii, .int, .short, .float (.data) and .comm, .lcomm (.bss) types.

Please download the VariableDemo.s code before you begin with the tutorial.  



Part 6 of the Assembly Language Primer for Hackers is available here. Enjoy!

Part 6 of the Assembly Language Primer for Hackers is available here. Enjoy!

Part 6 of the Assembly Language Primer for Hackers is available here. Enjoy!

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