Best Cyber Security Books

Zero day attack in cyber security is the time when the hackers have the opportunity of exploiting, The vulnerability of the system or the server even before the software developers addresses it and tries to overcome it.

In the book Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the launch of the world’s first digital weapon by Kim Zetter,

The author depicts the story behind the virus that vandalized Iran’s nuclear efforts, And has guided us that we are in the new age of war where a digital attack is equally destructive and harmful as a physical attack it.

The world’s most famous hacker, Kevin D. Mitnick, once on the run from FBI for three years,

For having hacked into some of the powerful and highly secured agencies and companies, Now reformed, is one of the experts in the subject of cyber security and,

Tells you about the ways to stay safe in today’s world where every minute of us being online is tracked down.

In the Art of Invisibility, Kevin D. Mitnick tells about the true life stories to make the readers aware of how our every step online is stored and the identity is literally being stolen. 

Intriguing and a thrilling true story of the world’s most wanted hacker full of suspense and unbelievable escapes,

Ghost in the Wires written by Kevin D. Mitnick himself tells his story.

Kevin Mitnick gained unauthorized access to some of the country’s powerful and highly secured agencies,

And companies which pressured the companies to rethink the ways to keep their data secure.

On the run from the FBI, Mitnick was closely followed and yet managed to prove that no matter how fast the companies were or how close the chase was, 

Sandworm; a group of hackers which are known as the most dangerous team of cyberwarriors in the history,

Working for Russia’s military intelligence agency telling the world that we are in the era,

Where we do not need physical weapons or bombs anymore to destroy our enemies.
A piece of code is strong enough to create waves of disruption.

Sandworm, written by Andy Greenberg is more of a reality check for everyone living in the present time,

And not just the story of a true-life event. The world witnessed the beginning of cyber attacks in 2014,

The Art of Deception, written by the world’s most famous hacker himself is a highly educational book.

Kevin D. Mitnick has exploited the vulnerabilities of the high secured and powerful agencies, And companies of the world leaving them wondering about the loopholes in their security system they had no idea about.

Presenting the art of social engineering, Mitnick through the seemingly possible, Nearly all fictional stories bring into the light as to why it is possible to take down even the highly guarded, secured sites.

Dark Territory is an approach to telling the history of cyber war in the form of a story.

Fred Kalpan is a Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism and has written some of the great books, On national security about the creation of cold war nuclear strategy, about the thinkers in the George W. Bush administration, who believed they could transform the world with minimal costs and about the counterinsurgency theorists who tried to change the American way of war.

The book is filled with a lot of behind-the-scenes information one of which being President Reagan watching the movie War Games, 

Zero day is the software bug which lets the hacker exploit your devices or systems without your permission,

And it is just equally harmful like physical war or maybe more.

For decades, the U.S. was the epicenter of these hackers but now they are spread worldwide and have no concern about your loss.

How they tell me the world ends is a reality check of today’s world where, The author Nicole Perlroth has distinctively focused on the urgent need of tackling this warfare to prevent the loss it has the potential of causing to the world.

Hacking is an art which is just as creative as destructive. When pursued by hackers posing a threat to a nation's security,

Or to the security of any company, it can be very destructive while the same thing when done, To find out the vulnerabilities to overcome them and make the security stronger helps solve problems and is useful.

In Hacking, the Art of Exploitation second edition, writer Jon Erickson not just tells you about some of the hacking techniques, but gives a complete step by step instruction manual teaching you to program computers, Using C, assembly language, and

Permanent Record is an autobiography of a twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden, in 2013,

Who shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that, the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email.

Six years later, he tells the world how he managed to build the system and what has made him reveal all about it to the world.

Senior Editor at weirdo.com, former Hacker and the author Kevin Poulsen is one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat.

Kingpin is the story of a criminal’s rise with organized cyber crimes and the law trying to track him down.

Through the pages of this book, Poulsen has made us aware of the vast online-fraud supermarkets stocked with, Credit card numbers, counterfeit checks, hacked bank accounts, dead drops, and fake passports. 

Your location, who you are right now with, your online and in-store purchase pattern,

If you are sick or pregnant, employed or unemployed, your emails and texts, everything is being recorded.

Governments and Corporations both use surveillance and share all the data with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches.

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier is a New York Times bestseller.

Cyber War is a terrifying new international conflict which concerns every American,

And this book offers an insider’s view of White House ‘Situation Room’ operations and carries the reader to the frontlines of our cyber defense.

It is a powerful book about technology, government, military strategy, about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers and explains cyber war clearly.

Author Richard A. Clarke is a former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert. Cyber War exposes a virulent threat to our nation’s security.

Python is a programming language which is a preferred choice of most security analysts, As it helps them create powerful and effective hacking tools. Written by Justin Seitz,

Black hat Python explores the darker side of Python's capabilities like writing network sniffers, Manipulating packets, infecting virtual machines, creating stealthy trojans, and more. 

The book teaches you to create a trojan command-and-control using GitHubDetect sandboxing and automate common malware tasks, like keylogging and screenshotting.

Another interesting book by the world’s most infamous hacker reformed to become one of the experts on,

The subject of cyber security and helping businesses and governments to combat data thieves, cybervandals, And other malicious computer intruders, Kevin D. Mitnick is the author of The Art of Intrusion.

In his book The Art Of Deception, through fictional case studies he has illustrated. 

How computer crackers use social engineering to compromise even the most technically secure computer systems

Knowing the Internet’s potential of surveillance and recording every activity of the user with utmost accuracy,

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar by P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman give complete information about Cyber security, And cyber war which has become really important for every person to know about as almost everyone all around the world has an online presence.

Through the course of this book, the author talks about the revolution which has taken place in military cybernetics and explains where it is headed.