Security-Related-Books

Due to my involvment in the security sector and the constand need for new knowledge, I noticed that there are many books out in the wild and no updated list, to keep track of the good ones. So, continuing from Reddits KillerTuxedo list, I want to keep an updated list of security books, with the help of the community of course.

General Hacking/Multiple Topics

• The Art of Intrusion - Kevin Mitnick
• The Database Hacker's Handbook - David Litchfield, Chris Anley, John Heasman, Bill Grindlay
• Ghost in The Wires - Kevin Mitnick
• Grey Hat Hacking: An Ethical Hacker's Handbook - Jonathon Ness, Shon Harris, Stephen Sims, Daniel Regalado, Chris Eagle, Branko Spasojevic, Ryan Linn, Allen Harper
• Hacking Exposed 7 - Stuart McClure
• The Hacker Playbook - Peter Kim
• The Hacker Playbook 2 - Peter Kim
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation - Jon Erickson
• Hacking: Step by Step Beginner's Guide to Start Hacking Computer Systems Within Hours - Tim Swarr
• The Network Security Test Lab - Michael Gregg
• Ninja Hacking - Thomas Wilhelm, Jason Andress
• Penetration Testing - Georgia Weidman
• Red Team Field Manual - Ben Clark
• Silence on The Wire - Michal Zalewski

Cryptography

• Cryptography - George Bull
• Cryptography Engineering & Design - Niels Ferguson
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography - Alfred J. Menezes

Privacy and Anonymity

• The Art of Invisibility - Kevin Mitnick
• Darknet: A Beginner's Guide to Staying Anonymous Online - Lance Henderson
• Data and Goliath - Bruce Schneier
• Dragnet Nation - Julia Angwin
• Obfuscation: A User's Guide - Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum
• The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy - Violet Blue

Programming/Scripting

• Automate The Boring Stuff With Python - Albert Sweigart
• Black Hat Python - Justin Seitz
• Designing BSD Rootkits - Joseph Kong
• Python Crash Course - Eric Matthes

Social Engineering

• The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
• The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick
• The Definitive Book of Body Language - Barbara Pease
• The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading - Ian Rowland
• Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher
• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• Influence of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
• Kali Linux Social Engineering - Rahul Singh Patel
• Like Switch - Jack Schafer, Marvin Karlins
• Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking - Christopher Hadnagy
• Pre-Suasion - Robert Cialdini
• Propoganda - Edward Bernays
• What Every Body is Saying - Joe Navarro

Software/Application Security

• A Bug Hunter's Diary - Tobias Klein
• A Guide to Kernel Exploitation - Enrico Perla, Masimilano Oldani
• Practical Malware Analysis - Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig
• The Web Application Hacker's Handbook - Dafydd Stuttard

Software Specific Guides

• The Linux Command Line - William E. Shotts Jr.
• Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Robert W. Beggs
• Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide - David Kennedy, Jim O'Gorman, Devon Kearns
• Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Calderon Pale Paulino
• Tor and The Dark Art of Anonymity - Lance Henderson
• Windows Internals Part I & II - Mark Russinovich, David A. Soloman, Alex Lonescu

Original list developed by KillerTuxedo and the Reddit community.