RTFM, that’s like the one word you will probably read most when you start digging into security and how stuff works. So here is a list of the books I’ve read/am reading/have in my possession/use as a reference. I recommend all of them, it’s interesting stuff and it’s always good to read about the same subject in different ways. Oh and try not to laugh about some books that I bought like way back and have read.
I will update this list when I buy/read more books.
Security
- A Bug Hunter’s Diary
- Android Security Internals
- Anti-Hacker Toolkit
- Attacking Network Protocols
- CISCO Security
- Crackproof your software
- Cryptography Engineering, design principles and practical applications
- Cryptology Unlocked
- Exploiting Software
- Hacker Disassembling Uncovered
- Hacking Exposed Wireless
- Hacking The Art of Exploitation
- Hacking The XBOX
- IOS Application Security
- Intel Developers’s Manuals & Reference Manual
- Malware Analyst’s Cookbook
- Managing Cisco Network Security
- Microsoft Windows Internals (4th edition)
- Penetration Testing and Network Defense
- Practical Reverse Engineering
- Red Team development and operations
- Reversing Secrets of Reverse Engineering
- Rootkits and Bootkits
- Rootkits, subverting the windows kernel
- Securing Cisco ios networks
- Serious Cryprography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
- Silence on The Wire
- The Android Hacker’s Handbook
- The Art of Memory Forensics
- The IDA Pro Book
- The Rootkit Arsenal, escape and evasion in the dark corners of the system
- The Book of PF (second edition)
- The Car hacker’s Handbook
- The Database Hacker’s Handbook
- The Shellcoder’s Handbook
- The web application hacker’s handbook
- Web Hacking Attacks and Defense
- The Art of Software Security Assessment
Programming / Networking / Misc-technical
- Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks
- Core Servlets and Java Server Pages
- Debugging The 9 indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive software and hardware problems
- Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4
- Java Network Programming
- Modern Operating Systems (Second Editions)
- Passport CCNA
- Perl Cookbook
- SCJP Study Guide
- TCP/IP Illustrated volume 1
- The Complete Reference J2ME
- The Complete Reference J2SE 5th Edition
- Transact-SQL Desk Reference
- The pragmatic programmer
Social Engineering / Physical Security
- Ghost in the wires
- Social Engineering the Art of Human Hacking
- The Art of Deception
- The Art of Intrusion
- Unmasking the Social Engineer
- The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
- Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
- A Burglar’s Guide to The City
- Unauthorized Access: Physical Penetration Testing For IT Security Teams
- The Art of the Con: How to Think Like a Real Hustler and Avoid Being Scammed
- Codes of the underworld: How criminals communicate
- Practical Doomsday
- Spy the lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
Electronics
- Electronics Projects for Dummies
- Circuitbuilding Do-It-Yourself for Dummies
- 101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius
Spy / non-technical
- Body of Secrets
- KingPing
- Spycraft
- The Authorized History of MI5
- The Puzzle Palace
- The Secret Sentry
- The Secrets of The FBI
- The cuckoo’s egg
- The billion dollar spy
- Sandworm
- To catch a spy: The art of counterintelligence
- The master of disguise: my secret life in the CIA
- Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
Management & misc
- How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
- Red Team how to succeed by thinking like the enemy
- Skunk Works: A personal memoir of my years of Lockheed
- Never split the difference
- The subtle art of not giving a f*ck
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Yvon Chouinard let my people go surfing
- It’s the way you say it
- Atomic Habits
Dutch
- Assembler Programmeren
- Aan de slag met c++ (vierde herziene druk)
- Basiscursus java
- Basiscursus HTML 4.01
- Basiscursus Delphi 6
- Basiscursus Visual Basic 4 voor windows
- De programmeertaal C
- Gestructureerde Computerarchitectuur
- Het is oorlog, maar niemand die het ziet
- Java voor studenten
- Netwerk beveiliging voor professionals
- PHP voor het world wide web
- TCP/IP sockets in C
Online collection of reading materials
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