// What to read next
What to read after Android Security Internals
Where to go after Android Security Internals, picked from our catalog. The next step up from advanced level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2017
Windows Internals, Part 1
The canonical Microsoft Press reference on Windows internals: how processes, threads, memory and system services are actually implemented in the modern Windows kernel. User-mode focus in this volume.
Advanced5/5Pavel Yosifovich, Alex Ionescu, Mark Russinovich, David Solomon02 · 2023
The Android Malware Handbook
Machine-learning researchers and members of Meta's and Google's Android Security teams distill years of research into detecting banking trojans, ransomware, and SMS fraud on Android, combining manual analysis with classification models.
Advanced4/5Qian Han, Salvador Mandujano, Sebastian Porst, V.S. Subrahmanian, Sai Deep Tetali, Yanhai Xiong03 · 2017
Attacking Network Protocols
James Forshaw, Project Zero veteran, on how to capture, parse, and break protocols from the wire up to the application layer, with a strong focus on building reusable analysis tooling.
Advanced5/5James Forshaw04 · 2020
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Google's site-reliability and security teams jointly write down what it actually takes to build systems that are both safe and dependable, from threat models and design reviews to rollback culture and crisis response.
Advanced5/5Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield05 · 2018
Practical Binary Analysis
Dennis Andriesse on the binary toolchain you can actually script: ELF internals, dynamic taint analysis, symbolic execution and instrumentation with concrete code-along examples.
Advanced5/5Dennis Andriesse06 · 2023
Security Chaos Engineering
Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart on treating security as a property of complex adaptive systems: instead of preventing failure, you continuously simulate it, and design the organization to learn from each result.
Advanced5/5Kelly Shortridge, Aaron Rinehart07 · 2020
Security Engineering
Ross Anderson's comprehensive textbook on the design of secure systems, covering protocols, access control, side channels, economics of security, and policy.
Advanced5/5Ross Anderson08 · 2005
Silence on the Wire
Michal Zalewski's classic on the indirect attack surface: timing channels, protocol-stack fingerprinting, and the often-overlooked side data leaked by every layer of a stack.
Advanced5/5Michal Zalewski