PayloadsAllTheThings/_LEARNING_AND_SOCIALS/BOOKS.md

Books

Grab a book and relax. Some of the best books in the industry.

Wiley:

• Advanced Penetration Testing: Hacking the World's Most Secure Networks by Wil Allsopp (2017)
• Android Hacker's Handbook by Joshua J. Drake et al. (2014)
• iOS Hacker's Handbook by Charlie Miller et al. (2012)
• The Browser Hacker's Handbook by Wade Alcorn et al. (2014)
• The Database Hacker's Handbook, David Litchfield et al. (2005)
• The Mac Hacker's Handbook by Charlie Miller & Dino Dai Zovi (2009)
• The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook by Dominic Chell et al. (2015)
• The Shellcoders Handbook by Chris Anley et al. (2007)
• The Web Application Hackers Handbook by D. Stuttard, M. Pinto (2011)

Leanpub:

• Breaking into Information Security: Learning the Ropes 101 - Andrew Gill
• Web Hacking 101 - How to Make Money Hacking Ethically by Peter Yaworski (2018)

Other:

• Black Hat Rust: Applied offensive security with the Rust programming language by Sylvain Kerkour
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson (2004)
• OWASP Testing Guide: Stable
• The Hacker Playbook 1: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing by Peter Kim (2014)
• The Hacker Playbook 2: Practical Guide to Penetration Testing by Peter Kim (2015)
• The Hacker Playbook 3: Practical Guide to Penetration Testing (Red Team Edition) by Peter Kim (2018)
• Violent Python: A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers by T.J. O'Connor (2012)

No Starch Press:

• A Bug Hunter's Diary by Tobias Klein (2011)
• Android Security Internals: An In-Depth Guide to Android's Security Architecture by Nikolay Elenkov (2015)
• Attacking Network Protocols: A Hacker's Guide to Capture, Analysis, and Exploitation by James Forshaw (2018)
• Black Hat Go: Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters by Tom Steele, Chris Patten, and Dan Kottmann (2020)
• Black Hat GraphQL by Dolev Farhi, Nick Aleks (2023)
• Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters by Justin Seitz (2014)
• Bug Bounty Bootcamp by Vickie Li (2021)
• Car Hacker's Handbook by Craig Smith (2016)
• Cyberjutsu: Cybersecurity for the Modern Ninja by Ben McCarty (2021)
• Evading EDR by Matt Hand (2023)
• Foundations of Information Security: A Straightforward Introduction by Jason Andress (2019)
• Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games by Nick Cano (2016)
• Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers by Justin Seitz (2009)
• Hacking APIs by Corey Ball (2022)
• Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide by David Kennedy (2011)
• Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking by Georgia Weidman (2014)
• Pentesting Azure Applications: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Securing Deployments by Matt Burrough (2018)
• PoC||GTFO, Volume 1 by Manul Laphroaig (2017)
• PoC||GTFO, Volume 2 by Manul Laphroaig (2018)
• PoC||GTFO, Volume 3 by Manul Laphroaig (2021)
• Practical Binary Analysis: Build Your Own Linux Tools for Binary instrumentation, Analysis, and Disassembly by Dennis Andriesse (2019)
• Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World by Michal Zalewski (2022)
• Practical Forensic Imaging: Securing Digital Evidence with Linux Tools by Bruce Nikkel (2016)
• Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things by Fotios Chantzis, Ioannis Stais, Paulino Calderon, Evangelos Deirmentzoglou and Beau Woods (2021)
• Practical Social Engineering: A Primer for the Ethical Hacker by Joe Gray (2022)
• Real-World Bug Hunting: A Field Guide to Web Hacking by Peter Yaworski (2019)
• Rootkits and Bootkits: Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats by Alex Matrosov, Eugene Rodionov, and Sergey Bratus (2019)
• The Art of Cyberwarfare: An Investigator's Guide to Espionage, Ransomware, and Organized Cybercrime by Jon DiMaggio (2022)
• The Car Hacker's Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester by Craig Smith (2016)
• The Hardware Hacking Handbook by Jasper van Woudenberg & Colin O'Flynn (2022)
• Windows Security Internals with PowerShell by James Forshaw (2024)