Complete Computer Security, Malware & Virus Books
2/24/2018 - Optimized for Firefox 58.0.2
COPYRIGHT 1992 thru 2018 - David R. Woodsmall
Allen, Julia H. et al
Software Security Engineering: a Guide for Project Managers
AW (a CERT book) $50 0-321-50917-X (has references)
Allen, Julia H. **
CERT Guide to System and Network Security Practices.
AW $ 40 0-201-73723-X
Anderson, Ross (I don't have it - it is also online)
Security Engineering - The Book
Wiley $75 0471389226 from Amazon
Andres, Andreu ^
Professional Pen Testing for Web Applicationsz
WROX $40 0-471-78966-6
Anley, Chris; John Heasman & Felix Lindner ##
The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes. SECOND EDITION
Wiley $50 047008023X
Arnold. Derek N.
UNIX Security, a Practical Tutorial
Mc 25 0-07-002560-6
Asadoorian, Paul & Larry Pesce
Linksys WRT54G: Ultimate Hacking (a popular Router)
Syngress $40 978-1-59749-166-2
Barrett, Daniel J. et al
Linux Security Cookbook
O'Reilly $ 40
Barrett, Daniel J. & Richard E. Silverman
SSH The Secure Shell: the definitive Guide
O'Reilly $40 0*596-00011-1
Blunden, Bill
The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape & Evasion in the Dark Corners of the system
Wordware Publishing $50 1-59822-061-6
Boyd, Colin & Anish Mathuria %%
Protocols for Authentication and Key Establishment. See also: ENCRYPTION
Springer $65 3540431071 Amazon
Bryant, Richard
UNIX Security for the Organization
SAMS 35 w/3 1/2" 0-672-30571-2
Burns, Bryan et al
Security Power Tools
O'Reilly $60 0-596-00963-1
Calkins, Bill
Solaris 8 System Administration Certification
Exams 310-011 and 310-012
QUE $ 50 w/CD & exam questions 1-57870-259-3
Carter, Dr. Everett F/ Jr, et al
Hack Proofing XML
Syngress $50 1-931836-50-7
Collings, Terry & Kurt Wall
Red hat Linux Networking and System Administration. SECOND EDITION.
Red Hat Press $ 60 w/CD 0-7645-4498-5
Collberg, Christian & Jasvir Nagra
Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection
AW $60 978-0321549259 Amazon See also: COMPUTER SECURITY
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ALL DEVELOPERS & SECURITY PEOPLE
Conry-Murray, Andrew and Vincent Weafer
Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security
Symantec Press/AW $ 20 0-321-35641-1
Doraswamy, Naganand & Dan Harkins
IPSec. SECOND EDITION
PH/PTR $45 0-13-046189-X
Dwivendi, Himanshu ^
Securing Storage: A Proactive Guide to SAN and NAS Security
Wiley $50 0-32134995-4 HAS NO REFERENCES
Edney, John & William A. Arbaugh @@
Real 802.11 Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.11i
AW (updated in 2004) 0-321-13620-9 Amazon.com
Eilam, Eldad ##
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering (use to prevent this from happening
Wiley $40 0764574817
Erbshloe, Michael
Trojans, Worms and Spyware
Elsevier $35 0-7506-7848-8
(in my opnion, this is a high-level, manager-type overview)
(I much preview the very technical book by Peter Szor)
Erickson, Jon #
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation. SECOND EDITION
No Starch Press $50 w/CD 1593271441 & 978-1593271442
Finkenzeller, Klaus
RFID Handbook : Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless
Smart Cards and Identification
Wiley 0-470-84402-7
Frisch, Aeleen
Essential System Administration
O'Reilly and Associates. $ 30 0-937175-80-3
Frisch, Aeleen
Essential System Administration: Pocket Reference
O'Reilly and Associates. $ 15 0-596-00449-4
Gaines, Helen Fouche
Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and their Solution
Dover Press 57-203
Garms, Jess & Daniel Somerfield
Professional Java Security
WROX $50 1861009265
Grigonis, Richard
Fault Resilient PCs
Flatiron Publishing 0-936648-89-9
Hall, Elaine M.
Managing Risk
AW $ 60 0-201-25592-8
Harris, Jeffrey
Novell NetWare 6.5 Administrator's Handbook
QUE $50
Henry-Stocker, Sandra & Evan R. Marks
Solaris Solutions for System Administrators. SECOND EDITION
Wiltey $ 45 0-471-43115-X
Hoffman, Billy & Bryan Sullivan #
AJAX Security
AW $50 0-321-49193-0
Hogland, Greg & James Butler
Rootkits www.rootkit.com
AW $45 0-321-29431-9
Howard, Michael & David LeBlanc **
Writing Secure Code.
MS Press $40 w/CD 0-7356-1588-8
Hunt, Craig
TCP/IP Network Administration
O'Reilly & Associates 30 0-937175-82-X
James, Lance
Phishing Exposed
Syngress $ 50 1-59749-030-X
Kanclirz, Jan Jr.
Netcat Power Tools. See also Netcat
Syngress $60 w/free e-book 978-1-59749-257-7
Karplak, Dale Walter
Software Engineering Risk Managment
IEEE 0-8186-7194-7
Kaspersky, Kris ##
Hacker Disassembling Uncovered: Powerful Techniques To Safeguard Your Programming
A-List Publishing $50 1931769222
Kaspersky, Kris
CD Cracking Uncovered: Protection against
Unsanctioned CD Copying
Alist $ 40 w/CD 1-931769-33-8
Kolesnikov, Oleg & Brian Hatch
Building Linux Virtual Networks (VPNs)
New riders $ 45 1-57870-266-6
Laffin, John
Codes and Ciphers: Secret Writing Through the Ages
Signet
Long, Johnny et al
Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit
Syngress $60 w/CD 1-59749-021-0
McCarty, Bill (I prefer the one by Frank Mayer) @
SELINUX: NSA's Open Source Security Enhanced Linux.
O'Reilly $40 0-596-00716-7
MacWilliams, F. J. & N.J.A Sloane
The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes
North-Holland 0-4444-85009-0
Madjid Nakhjiri and Mahsa Nakhjiri %%
AAA and Network Security for Mobile Access: Radius, Diameter, EAP, PKI and IP Mobility.
Wiley $150 0470011947 Amazon
May, J. **
OSPF: Anatomy of a Routing Protocol
AW
Mayer, Frank et al @
SELINUX by Example
PH $45 0-13-196369-4
Meyer, Carl H. and Stephen M. Matyas
Cryptography: A New Dimension in Computer Data Security
Wiley 0-471-04892-5
Miles, Greg at al
Security Assessment: Case Studies for Implementing the NSA IAM
(Information Assurance methodology).
Syngress $70 1-932266-96-8
Miller, Laurence & Peter H Gregory
CISSP for Dummies. SECOND EDITION
Wiley $40 w/CD 978-0-470-12426-0
Miller, Mark A. **
Voice Over IP.
[IP, RTP, RTCP, RSVP, RTSP & VPN]
M&T $ 50 w/CD 0-7645-4617-1
Minasi, Mark
Administrating Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises.
Sybex $40 0470108320 See also SECURITY
Mui, Linda & Eeric Pearce
X Window System Administrator's Guide - for Release 4 and Release 5
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 30 0-937175-83-8
Nelson, Mark
The Data Compression Book
M&T Books 1-55851-216-0
Osterloh, Heather
IP Routing Primer Plus
SAMS $ 40 0-672-32210-2
Pontiatowski, Marty
hp-ux 11i System Administration Handbook & Toolkit
PH/PTR $ 65 w/CD 0-13-101883-3
Porter, Thomas & Michael Gough
How to Cheat at VoIP Security
SYNGRESS $50 159749-169-1
Rankl, Wolfgang & Wolfgang Effing
Smart Card Handbook. 3rd edition
Wiley 0-470-85668-8
Rathaus, Noam & Gadi Evron ##
Open Source Fuzzing Tools
Syngress $60 978-1597491952 Amazon
Rehman, Rafeeq Ur
HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration
PH/PTR $60 0-13-018374-1
Reiss, Levi & Joseph Radin
UNIX System Administration Guide. Covers V & BSD systems
Osborne 35 0-07-881951-2
Rescorla, Eric **
SSL & TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems
AW $ 40 0-201-61598-3
Schell, Benadette and Clemons Martan
Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
Wiley $30 0-470-04752-6 See also: Complete Comuter Security
Schneier, Bruce
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C
Wiley 45 0-471-59756-2
SCO UNIX
SCO UNIX System V System Administrator's Guide
PH 40 0-13-012568-7
Seitz, Justin @@
Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers
No Starch Press $40 978-1593271923 Amazon See also: COMPUTER SECURITY
Shah, Shreeraj
WEB 2.0 Security: defending AJAX, RIA and SOA
Charles River w/CD $50 1-58450-550-8
Shema, Mike & Bradley C. Johnson
Anti-Hacker Toolkit. Second Edition
Osborne $60 w/CD 0-07223020-7
Shimonski, Robert J. et al
Best Damn Firewall Book Period
Syngress $60 1-931836-90-6
Skoudis, Ed ^
Malware: Fighting Malicious Code
PH $ 50 0-13-101405-6
Stevenson, Larry & Nancy Altholz @@
Rootkits for Dummies
For Dummies $30 w/CD 978-0471917106
Sutton, Michael et al
Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery
AW $55 0-321-44611-9 Amazon
Szor, Peter (Symantec's chief anti-virus researcher)
Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense
Symantec Press $ 50 0-321-30454-3
[This is rather technical, but necessary if you really want
understand how Viruses work and perhaps how to combat them]
Takanen, Ari ##
Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance
Artech House Publishers $85 978-1596932142 Amaon
Thomas, Stephen A. **
IP Switching and Routing Essentials: Understanding
RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE
Wiley 0471034665
Thompson, Herbert H. & Scott G. Chase ^
Software Vulnerability Guide.
Charles River $50 1-58450-358-0
Todd, Chad
Hack Proofing Windows 2000
Syngress $50 1-931836-49-3
Toxen, Bob
Real World Linux Security. SECOND EDTION
PH/PTR $50 w/CD 0-13-046456-2
Tulloch, Mitch **
Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security
MS Press $40 0-7356-1877-1
Viega, John, et al **
Network Security with OpenSSL
O'Reilly $40
Vacca, John R.
Biometrics and Verification Technology Systems.
BH $? 978-0-7506-7967-1
Vieler, Ric @@
Professional Rootkits
WROX $50 978-0470101544 Amazon
[Personally, the books seems more about code than about theory (which you may prefer).
[For theory, I would recommend: "Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel",
or even ROOKITS For Dummies
Walker, Andy
Absolute Beginner's Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware
and Viruses.
QUE $22 0-7897-3459-1
Wang, Wallace
Steal this Computer Book 4
No Starch press $30 w/CD of Security Programs 1-59327-105-0
(See also: computer security)
Whittaker, James A, & Herbert H. Thompson
How to Break Software Security
AW/Pearson $35 w/CD 0-321-19433-0
Wolfe, Paul et al
Anti-SPAM Toolkit
McGraw-Hill $50 (2004) w/CD 0-07-223167-X
Zaytsev, Oleg @@
Rootkits, Spyware/Adware, Keyloggers and Backdoors:
Detection and Neutralization
A List Publishing $40 978-1931769594
Ziegler, Robert L.
Linux Firewalls. Second Edition
New Riders $50 0-7357-1099-6
Zwicky, Elizabeth D. &&
Building Internet Firewalls. 2nd Edition
O'Reilly $50 1-56592-871-7
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