Over the years, there have been specific books that have influenced my career in Cybersecurity and others that provide a good historical foundation to the cybersecurity field. Some of these books are technical in nature, but a majority of them are not. If you have any interest in computers, hacking, or cybersecurity in general, you may want to review one or more of the following books. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
Ghost in the Wires (Kevin Mitnick)<\/p>\n
The Art of Invisibility (Kevin Mitnick)<\/p>\n
The Cuckoo’s Egg (Clifford Stoll)<\/p>\n
Silicon Snake Oil (Clifford Stoll)<\/p>\n
SPAM Nation (Brian Krebs)<\/p>\n
Fatal System Error (Joseph Menn)<\/p>\n
Cult of the Dead Cow (Joseph Menn)<\/p>\n
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Fred Kaplan)<\/p>\n
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Linux Fundamentals<\/strong><\/p>\n LINUX BASICS FOR HACKERS: Getting Started with Networking, Scripting, and Security in Kali by OccupyTheWeb<\/p>\n The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition by William E. Shotts<\/p>\n A Practical Guide to Red Hat\u00ae Linux\u00ae, Third Edition: Fedora\u2122 Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux by Mark G. Sobell<\/p>\n Kali Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n Beginning Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux by Sanjib Sinha<\/p>\n Kali Linux – An Ethical Hacker’s Cookbook by Himanshu Sharma<\/p>\n Kali Linux Revealed \u2013 Mastering the Penetration Testing Distribution<\/p>\n PenTesting<\/strong><\/p>\n Penetration Tester by 30Bird Media<\/p>\n Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking by Georgia Weidman<\/p>\n Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide<\/p>\n Social Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n No Tech Hacking by Kevin Mitnick & Johnny Long<\/p>\n The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon and Steve Wozniak<\/p>\n Password Cracking<\/strong><\/p>\n Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual by Joshua Picolet<\/p>\n Cryptography<\/strong><\/p>\n Computer Security and Cryptography by Alan G. Konheim<\/p>\n Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption by Jean-Philippe Aumasson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the years, there have been specific books that have influenced my career in Cybersecurity and others that provide a good historical foundation to the cybersecurity field. Some of these books are technical in nature, but a majority of them are not. If you have any interest in computers, hacking, or cybersecurity in general, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Sp7b-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/dmeske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}