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RE: Good security books


From: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:46:57 -0600

Great list, don't forget Kevin's new book - The Art of Intrusion
(http://www.mitnicksecurity.com/)

"Hacking - The Art of Exploitation" 
 "Google Hacking for Pen-Testers
(http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=3150)

-Todd


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Of Dave King
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To: Scott White
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Good security books

Here's a list of some of my favorites by category:

General Hacking Techniques with specific examples:
Hacking Exposed 4th ed
or
Gray Hat Hacking
or
Security Warrior

Social Engineering:
The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick (also great for policy writing)

Coding Security:
Writing Secure Code 2nd Ed
or
Exploiting Software : How to Break Code
or
Building Secure Software

Forensics:
Incident Response & Computer Forensics 2nd Edition or 
Forensic Discovery

Wardriving:
Wardriving Drive, Detect, Defend

Wireless Security:
Maximum Wireless Security

Encryption:
Applied Cryptography

Threat/Risk Analysis:
Threat Modeling

Web Security:
Web Security -- Hack Notes (nice quick read, very condensed)

Network Security Monitoring
The Tao of Network Security

Shell Coding:
Shell Coder's Handbook

MS SQL Server:
SQL Server Security

Linux:
Hardening Linux* *by James Turnbull
</exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=James
%20Turnbull/104-0596167-5419134>

Dave King CISSP
http://www.thesecure.net


Scott White wrote:

Group,

Any good security books fellow members have read recently and would 
like to recommend?
There is a lot more quantity than quality now a days

Thanks

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