Top Hacking Books for cybersecurity professionals
Cybersecurity is among the fastest-growing fields today, offering exciting challenges, high demand, and strong earning potential. If you’re interested in protecting systems, networks, and data from cyber threats, here are some books to get you started.
1. Web Application Hacker’s Handbook
The highly successful security book returns with a new edition, completely updatedWeb applications are the front door to most organizations, exposing them to attacks that may disclose personal information, execute fraudulent transactions, or compromise ordinary users.
2. The Hackers Playbook 3
The main purpose of this book is to answer questions as to why things are still broken. For instance, with all the different security products, secure code reviews, defense in depth, and penetration testing requirements, how are we still seeing massive security breaches happening to major corporations and governments?
3. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation 2nd edition
The included LiveCD provides a complete Linux programming and debugging environment—all without modifying your current operating system. Use it to follow along with the book’s examples as you fill gaps in your knowledge and explore hacking techniques on your own. Get your hands dirty debugging code, overflowing buffers, hijacking network
4. Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies — and no matter how fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks.
5. Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking reveals the craftier side of the hacker’s repertoire―why hack into something when you could just ask for access? Undetectable by firewalls and antivirus software, social engineering relies on human fault to gain access to sensitive spaceshe most robust security personnel, and shows you how these techniques have been used in the past.
6. Computer Hacking Beginners Guide
This guidebook is going to spend some time taking a look at the world of hacking, and some of the great techniques that come with this type of process as well.Whether you are an unethical or ethical hacker, you will use a lot of the same techniques, and this guidebook is going to explore them in more detail
7. Kali Linux Revealed : Mastering Pen Testing Distribution
Kali Linux has not only become the information security professional’s platform of choice, but evolved into an industrial-grade, and world-class operating system distribution–mature, secure, and enterprise-ready.Through the decade-long development process, Muts and his team, along with countless volunteers from the hacker community, have taken on the burden of streamlining and organizing our work environment, freeing us from much of the drudgery.
8. The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing
The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing, 2nd Ed. serves as an introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test or perform an ethical hack from beginning to end. No prior hacking experience is needed. You will learn how to properly utilize and interpret the results of modern day hacking tool
9. Nmap Network Scanning
Nmap Network Scanning is the official guide to the Nmap Security Scanner, a free and open source utility used by millions of people for network discovery, administration, and security auditing. From explaining port scanning basics for novices to detailing low-level packet crafting methods used by advanced hackers, this book by Nmap’s original author suits all levels of security and networking professionals.
10. Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-on Guide
Malware analysis is big business, and attacks can cost a company dearly. When malware breaches your defenses, you need to act quickly to cure current infections and prevent future ones from occurring.
11. RTFM: Red Team Field Manual V2
Over 8 years ago, the Red Team Field Manual (RTFM) was born out of operator field notes inspired by years of Red Team missions. While tools and techniques change, operators still constantly find themselves in common operating environments, with time running out. The RTFM has provided a quick reference when there is no time to scour the Internet for that perfect command.
12. Hash Crack: Password Cracking v3
The Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual v3 is an expanded reference guide for password recovery (cracking) methods, tools, and analysis techniques. A compilation of basic and advanced techniques to assist penetration testers and network security professionals evaluate their organization’s posture.
13. Advanced Penetration Testing
Advanced Penetration Testing: Hacking the World’s Most Secure Networks takes hacking far beyond Kali linux and Metasploit to provide a more complex attack simulation. Featuring techniques not taught in any certification prep or covered by common defensive scanners, this book integrates social engineering, programming, and vulnerability exploits into a multidisciplinary approach for targeting and compromising high security environments.
14. Hacking: A Beginners Guide to Your First Computer Hack
This book will teach you how you can protect yourself from most common hacking attacks — by knowing how hacking actually works! After all, in order to prevent your system from being compromised, you need to stay a step ahead of any criminal hacker. You can do that by learning how to hack and how to do a counter-hack.
15. Web Hacking 101
16. Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition
BTHb:INRE – Version 2.2 now available. Voted #3 of the 100 Best Cyber Security Books of All Time by Vinod Khosla, Tim O’Reilly and Marcus Spoons Stevens on BookAuthority.com as of 06/09/2018! The Blue Team Handbook is a “zero fluff” reference guide for cyber security incident responders, security engineers, and InfoSec pros alike.
17. Black Hat Python: Python
When it comes to creating powerful and effective hacking tools, Python is the language of choice for most security analysts. In this second edition of the bestselling Black Hat Python, you’ll explore the darker side of Python’s capabilities: everything from writing network sniffers, stealing email credentials, and bruteforcing directories to crafting mutation fuzzers, investigating virtual machines, and creating stealthy trojans.
18. Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker’s Handbook
This fully updated, industry-standard security resource shows, step by step, how to fortify computer networks by learning and applying effective ethical hacking techniques. Based on curricula developed by the authors at major security conferences and colleges, the book features actionable planning and analysis methods as well as practical steps for identifying and combating both targeted and opportunistic attacks.
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