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Why study programming?

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Ethical hackers should study programming and learn as much about the subject as possible in order to

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find vulnerabilities in programs and get them fixed before unethical hackers and black hats take advantage

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of them.

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Many security professionals come at programming from a non-traditional perspective, often having no

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programming experience prior to beginning their career.

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And the bug hunting is a very much a footrace.

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If a vulnerability exists, we will find it first.

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The purpose of this chapter is to give you the survival skill necessary to understand upcoming sections

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and then later to find the holes in software before the black hats do.

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The C programming language was developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie from AT&T Bell Labs.

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The language was heavily used in Unix and therefore ubiquitous.

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In fact, many of the stable networking programs and operating systems, as well as large applications

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such as Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Reader and browsers are written in combination of C, C plus

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plus Objective-C assembly and a couple of other lower level languages.