Recommended Reading

This page lists some good books recommended by current and past students for a variety of subjects related to the degree. Feel free to add books as you read them if they are relevant!
General Security
​Red Team Field Manual – Ben Clark (2014)
​Blue Team Field Manual – Alan J White, Ben Clark (2017)
​Network Security Assessment Third Edition – Chris McNab (2016)
​Hacking: The Art of Exploitation - John Erickson (2008)
​The Hacker Playbook 2 - Peter Kim (2015)
​Grey Hat Hacking (Fourth Edition) - Daniel Regalado, Shon Harris, Allen Harper, Chris Eagle, Jonathon Ness, Branko Spasojevic, Ryan Linn, Stephen Sims (2015)
Web App Hacking
​Web App Hackers Handbook Second Edition – Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto (2011)
​SQL Injection Attacks and Defense - Justin Clarke-Salt (2012)
​The Tangled Web - A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications - Michal Zalewski (2011)
Mobile App Security
​Mobile Hackers Handbook - Dominic Chell, Tyrone Erasmus, Shaun Colley, Ollie Whitehouse (2015)
​iOS Application Security - David Thiel (2016)
Python Programming
​Black Hat Python – Justin Seitz (2014)
​Learn Python The Hard Way - Zed A. Shaw (2013)
​Violent Python - T.J. O'Connor (2012)
Java Programming
​Mr Bunny’s Big Cup o’ Java – Carlton Egremont III (1999)
C Programming
​Learn C The Hard Way – Zed A. Shaw (2015)
​The C Programming Language - Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (1988)
​Deep C Secrets- Peter Van Der Linden (1994)
Powershell
​Learn Windows Powershell in a Month of Lunches (Third Edition) - Donald W. Jones, Jeffrey D. Hicks (2017)
Malware Analysis/Reverse Engineering
​Practical Malware Analysis – Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig (2012)
​Art of Software Security Assessment - Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh (2006)
​The Shellcoders Handbook - Chris Anley, John Heasman, Felix Lindner, Gerardo Richarte (2007)
​Learning Linux Binary Analysis - Ryan O'Neill (2016)
Digital Forensics
​Windows Forensics Analysis Toolkit (Windows 7) - Harlan Carvey (2012)
​Windows Forensics Analysis Toolkit (Windows 8) - Harlan Carvey (2014)
​Windows Registry Forensics - Harlan Carvey (2011)
Networking
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Misc
​Infrastructure as Code - Keif Morris (2016)
​There's an entire series of books 'Hacking Exposed' for a whole lot of topics, I'm too lazy to add them all manually​
Operating Systems
macOS & iOS
​MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume I - User Mode - Jonathan Levin (Amazon) (2017)
​MacOS and iOS Internals, Volume III: Security & Insecurity - Jonathan Levin (Amazon) (2016)
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