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Book List

Table of Contents

1. Network Hacking
2. Web Applications Hacking
3. Operative Systems
4. Cryptography
5. Social Engineering
6. Mobile Hacking
7. Cloud Hacking
8. IoT (Internet of Things) Hacking
9. Malware Analysis
10. Pentesting

Network Security

• Network Security Assessment Know Your Network - Chris McNab
• Applied Network Security Monitoring Collection, Detection, and Analysis - Chris Sanders
• Cryptography and Network Security, Principles and Practice - William Stallings

Web Applications Security

• The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws - Dafydd Stuttard
• Bug Bounty Bootcamp: The Guide to Finding and Reporting Web Vulnerabilities - Vickie Li
• Real-World Bug Hunting: A Field Guide to Web Hacking - Peter Yaworski
• Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces - Corey J. Ball

Operative Systems

• Linux Basics for Hackers, 2nd Edition - OccupyTheWeb
• How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know - Brian Ward
• Windows Internals - Mark Russinovich and David Solomon

Cryptography

• The Code Book, The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography - Simon Singh
• Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier
• Serious Cryptography - Jean-Philippe Aumasson
• Cryptography and Network Security - William Stallings
• Practical Cryptography in Python - Seth Nielson and Christopher Monson
• Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication - David Kahn

Social Engineering

• Social Engineering The Science of Human Hacking - Christopher Hadnagy
• The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick

Mobile Hacking

• Android Security Internals - Nikolay Elenkov
• The Mobile Application Hacker’s Handbook - Dominic Chell
• Hacking and Securing iOS Applications - Jonathan Zdziarski
• Android Hacker’s Handbook - Joshua J. Drake
• iOS Hacker’s Handbook - Charlie Miller

Cloud Security

• Cloud Security and Privacy - Tim Mather
• AWS Penetration Testing - Jonathan Helmus
• Mastering AWS Security - Albert Anthony
• Practical Cloud Security - Chris Dotson
• Securing DevOps - Julien Vehent

IoT (Internet of Things) Hacking

• Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things - Fotios Chantzis
• Abusing the Internet of Things - Nitesh Dhanjani
• IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook - Aaron Guzman and Aditya Gupta
• Hacking Connected Cars - Alissa Knight
• Internet of Things for Architects - Perry Lea

Malware Analysis

• Practical Malware Analysis, The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software - Michael Sikorski
• The Malware Analyst’s Cookbook - Michael Ligh
• Malware Data Science - Joshua Saxe and Hillary Sanders
• Windows Malware Analysis Essentials - Victor Marak
• Advanced Malware Analysis - Christopher Elisan

Pentesting

• Hacking The Art of Exploitation - Jon Erickson
• The Hacker Playbook 3, Practical Guide To Penetration Testing - Peter Kim
• Metasploit, The Penetration Tester’s Guide - David Kennedy
• Black Hat Python, Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters - Justin Seitz
• Advanced Penetration Testing, Hacking the World’s Most Secure Networks - Wil Allsopp