Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition

Welcome to the 2nd Edition of Learn Python the hard way. You can visit the companion site to the book at http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ where you can purchase digital downloads and paper versions of the book. The free HTML version of the book is available at http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/.

• The Hard Way Is Easier
• Exercise 0: The Setup
• Exercise 1: A Good First Program
• Exercise 2: Comments And Pound Characters
• Exercise 3: Numbers And Math
• Exercise 4: Variables And Names
• Exercise 5: More Variables And Printing
• Exercise 6: Strings And Text
• Exercise 7: More Printing
• Exercise 8: Printing, Printing
• Exercise 9: Printing, Printing, Printing
• Exercise 10: What Was That?
• Exercise 11: Asking Questions
• Exercise 12: Prompting People
• Exercise 13: Parameters, Unpacking, Variables
• Exercise 14: Prompting And Passing
• Exercise 15: Reading Files
• Exercise 16: Reading And Writing Files
• Exercise 17: More Files
• Exercise 18: Names, Variables, Code, Functions
• Exercise 19: Functions And Variables
• Exercise 20: Functions And Files
• Exercise 21: Functions Can Return Something
• Exercise 22: What Do You Know So Far?
• Exercise 23: Read Some Code
• Exercise 24: More Practice
• Exercise 25: Even More Practice
• Exercise 26: Congratulations, Take A Test!
• Exercise 27: Memorizing Logic
• Exercise 28: Boolean Practice
• Exercise 29: What If
• Exercise 30: Else And If
• Exercise 31: Making Decisions
• Exercise 32: Loops And Lists
• Exercise 33: While Loops
• Exercise 34: Accessing Elements Of Lists
• Exercise 35: Branches and Functions
• Exercise 36: Designing and Debugging
• Exercise 37: Symbol Review
• Exercise 38: Reading Code
• Exercise 39: Doing Things To Lists
• Exercise 40: Dictionaries, Oh Lovely Dictionaries
• Exercise 41: Gothons From Planet Percal #25
• Exercise 42: Gothons Are Getting Classy
• Exercise 43: You Make A Game
• Exercise 44: Evaluating Your Game
• Exercise 45: Is-A, Has-A, Objects, and Classes
• Exercise 46: A Project Skeleton
• Exercise 47: Automated Testing
• Exercise 48: Advanced User Input
• Exercise 49: Making Sentences
• Exercise 50: Your First Website
• Exercise 51: Getting Input From A Browser
• Exercise 52: The Start Of Your Web Game
• Next Steps
• Advice From An Old Programmer

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Malware Analyser v3.0 – A Static & Dynamic Malware Analysis Tool

Malware Analyser is freeware tool to perform static and dynamic analysis on malware executables, it can be used to identify potential traces of anti-debug, keyboard hooks, system hooks and DEP setting change calls in the malware.
This is a stepping release since for the first time the Dynamic Analysis has been included for file creations (will be improved for other network/registry indicators sooner) along with process dumping feature.
Features

• String based analysis for registry, API calls, IRC Commands, DLL’s called and VM Aware.
• Display detailed headers of PE with all its section details, import and export symbols etc.
• On Distro, can perform an ascii dump of the PE along with other options (check –help argument).
• For Windows, it can generate various section of a PE : DOS Header, DOS Stub, PE File Header, Image Optional Header, Section Table, Data Directories, Sections
• ASCII dump on windows machine
• Code Analysis (disassembling)
• Online malware checking (http://www.virustotal.com)
• Check for Packer from the Database.
• Tracer functionality
• Signature Creation: Allows to create signature of malware
• CRC and Timestamp verification.
• Entropy based scan to identify malicious sections.
• Dump a process memory
• Dynamic Analysis (Still in beginning stage) for file creations.

You can download Malware Analyser v3.0 here:
malware_analyser 3.0.zip

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