Suggested Technical Reading

A list of acreditted books about cyber security in the modern age that everyone should read!

Fiction For Fun!

  • Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
  • 1984, George Orwell

Cybersecurity:

  • “A Bug Hunter’s Diary ”, by Tobias Klein
  • “The Art of Deception ” by Kevin Mitnick.
  • Practical Malware Analysis – Michael Sikorksi and Andrew Honig
  • Windows Internals – Mark Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu
  • IDA Pro Book – Chris Eagle
  • Black Hat Python – Justin Seitz
  • Understanding Cryptography by Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl
  • Hacking Exposed 7 “, by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz
  • Blue Team Handbook – Don Murdoch
  • Cybersecurity: Protecting Critical Infrastructures from Cyber Attack and Cyber Warfare
  • Cybersecurity and Cyberwar – P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman

Practical guides:

  • TCP/IP Illustrated – Kevin R. Fall and W. Richard Stevens
  • Subnetting: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide-From A to Z – Darryl Barton
  • Web Application Vulnerabilities: Detect, Exploit, Prevent – Steven Palmer
  • Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
  • Practical Malware Analysis by Michael Sikorski.
  • Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It – Richard Clarke, Robert Knake
  • Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage By Gordon Corera
  • Cybersecurity and human rights in the age of cyberveillance , edited by Joanna Klesza & Roy Balleste

Gerrymandering:

  • Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy Hardcover – June 14, 2016 by David Daley

Political Science-Computers General:

  • Data Analysis for Politics and Policy 1st Edition by Edward R. Tufte
  • Security and Policy Driven Computing 1st Edition by Lei Liu
  • The Rise of the Computer State Hardcover – May, 1983 by David Burnham
  • The Limits Of Privacy (The Kluwer international series in engineering & computer science) First Edition Edition by Amitai Etzioni (Author) - 1999
  • Inside the Enemy's Computer: Identifying Cyber Attackers Sep 1, 2017 by Clement Guitton
  • Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It Paperback – April 10, 2012

Net neutrality:

  • Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age 1st Edition by Dawn C. Nunziato - 2009
  • The Fallacy of Net Neutrality (Encounter Broadsides) Paperback – November 1, 2011 by Thomas W Hazlett