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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation w/CD (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,532 ratings — published 2003
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.97 — 28,102 ratings — published 2011
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,775 ratings — published 1989
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,242 ratings — published 2007
Social Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,972 ratings — published 2010
Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.11 — 623 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,336 ratings — published 2001
Gray Hat Hacking : The Ethical Hacker's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.10 — 547 ratings — published 2004
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,639 ratings — published 2005
Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.19 — 407 ratings — published 2014
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,652 ratings — published 1984
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,575 ratings — published 2017
The Hacker Playbook 2: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.24 — 449 ratings — published 2015
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.33 — 10,671 ratings — published 2019
Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.07 — 876 ratings — published 2011
The Hacker Playbook 3: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.40 — 264 ratings — published
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,122 ratings — published 2011
Linux Basics for Hackers: Getting Started with Networking, Scripting, and Security in Kali (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.13 — 615 ratings — published 2018
The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide to Penetration Testing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.98 — 487 ratings — published 2014
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,526 ratings — published 2019
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,168 ratings — published 2000
Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.47 — 622 ratings — published 2011
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,358 ratings — published 1992
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,642 ratings — published 2014
The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.15 — 335 ratings — published 2004
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,417 ratings — published 2012
The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.92 — 723 ratings — published 2011
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.09 — 551 ratings — published 2005
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,840 ratings — published 2021
Red Team Field Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,013 ratings — published 2014
Hacking S3crets (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.27 — 508 ratings — published 2012
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.93 — 54,014 ratings — published 2008
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.30 — 59,612 ratings — published 2019
Violent Python: A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.04 — 554 ratings — published 2012
Real-World Bug Hunting: A Field Guide to Web Hacking (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.23 — 155 ratings — published
The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.05 — 560 ratings — published 2011
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,143 ratings — published 1993
The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.81 — 172,228 ratings — published 2015
Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.35 — 428 ratings — published 2009
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,613 ratings — published 1999
Hacker's Delight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,140 ratings — published 2002
Getting Started Becoming a Master Hacker: Hacking is the Most Important Skill Set of the 21st Century! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.28 — 64 ratings — published
The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.28 — 569 ratings — published 2017
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,815 ratings — published 2013
Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.21 — 474 ratings — published 2005
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,530,923 ratings — published 2005
No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hacking)
avg rating 3.94 — 220 ratings — published 2007
Bug Bounty Bootcamp (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.45 — 141 ratings — published
The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.16 — 233 ratings — published 2020
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as hacking)
avg rating 4.01 — 303,856 ratings — published 1992
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“There was a program on the computer ... where two people could “chat” to each other while on the computer, sharing information.
Woz ... hacked into the depths of the system and discovered a way to break in on other people’s electronic conversations.
So when Gordon French, for instance, was flaming about his new trick with the 8008 Chicken Hawk, his home terminal would inexplicably begin printing out these semiobscene Polish jokes, and he never did figure out that somewhere miles away Steve Wozniak was doubled up in laughter.”
― Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2
Woz ... hacked into the depths of the system and discovered a way to break in on other people’s electronic conversations.
So when Gordon French, for instance, was flaming about his new trick with the 8008 Chicken Hawk, his home terminal would inexplicably begin printing out these semiobscene Polish jokes, and he never did figure out that somewhere miles away Steve Wozniak was doubled up in laughter.”
― Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2
“When we give technology too much control, we risk losing control over ourselves.”
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