Friday, December 2, 2016

End of 2016 Security Book List

Since the year is coming to a close, I recently pulled together this list of security-related books I’ve read. It's not all technical, there's some psychology mixed in:

Games:
ISBN-13: 978-1593276690 - Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games    
ISBN-13: 978-1469901732 - Making Games with Python & Pygame    

Python Performance:
ISBN-13: 978-1449361594 - High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans   
ISBN-13: 978-1491901557 - Cython: A Guide for Python Programmers   
ISBN-13: 978-1783555130 - Python Machine Learning    


Python General:
ISBN-13: 978-1593275990 - Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners    
ISBN-13: 978-1783551316 - Mastering PyCharm    

Penetration Testing and Exploit Development:
ISBN-13: 978-1512214567 - The Hacker Playbook 2: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing    
ISBN-13: 978-8126533404 - The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws    
ISBN-13: 978-1507821152 - Windows Stack Exploitation    
ISBN-13: 978-0321446114 - Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery    
ISBN-13: 978-1784392932 - Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook    
ISBN-13: 978-1593272883 - Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide    
ISBN-13: 978-1507781388 - Nmap 6 Cookbook: The Fat Free Guide to Network Security Scanning
ISBN-13: 978-1784398583 - Python Penetration Testing Essentials    
ISBN-13: 978-1593275907 - Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters    
ISBN-13: 978-1597499576 - Violent Python: A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers    

Forensics:
ISBN-13: 978-0124186767 - Python Forensics: A Workbench for Inventing and Sharing Digital Forensic Technology    

SDR:
ISBN-13: 978-1514716694 - The Hobbyist's Guide to the RTL-SDR: Really Cheap Software Defined Radio    

Social  & Psychology:
ISBN-13: 978-0205609994 - Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition)    
ISBN-13: 978-0062183613 - The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves    
ISBN-13: 978-0470639535 - Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking    
ISBN-13: 978-1523850938 - Social Engineering: The Art of Psychological Warfare, Human Hacking, Persuasion, and Deception   
ISBN-13: 978-1629147949 - Lie Detecting 101: A Comprehensive Course in Spotting Lies and Detecting Deceit    
ISBN-13: 978-1502458308 - Secrets of Detecting Lies: Handbook for Body Language Deception Detection (Volume 1)    

Cryptography:
ISBN-13: 978-0385495325 - The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography    
ISBN-13: 978-0465062904 - Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum    
ISBN-13: 978-0521879965 - Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists    
ISBN-13: 978-0470474242 - Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications    

Google the ISBN and you'll find information on the book and the versions. Future readers should take note of newer versions that might come out. Amazon does a good job mentioning that there is a new version of material.  

If anyone has a question about one of the books, you can ask PM me on Reddit: /u/Brave_Little_Roaster