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Alternatives to Android Security Internals
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Android Security Internals. If Android Security Internals is the wrong fit at advanced level, start here.
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 · 2016
iOS Application Security
David Thiel on attacking and defending iOS apps: the platform sandbox, IPC surfaces, keychain semantics, transport security, and the patterns that introduce real bugs.
Intermediate3/5David Thiel04 · 2015
The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook
Chell, Erasmus, Colley, and Whitehouse's reference on iOS and Android application security from the early-mid 2010s — runtime hooking, transport security, IPC abuse, and the platform-specific surface of mobile pentesting.
Intermediate3/5Dominic Chell, Tyrone Erasmus, Shaun Colley, Ollie Whitehouse05 · 2024
Windows Security Internals
Forshaw takes apart the Windows security model from the SRM and access tokens up through Kerberos, with live PowerShell you can run against your own machine. The most authoritative single source on how Windows actually decides who can do what.
Advanced5/5James Forshaw06 · 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 · 2021
The Hardware Hacking Handbook
Jasper van Woudenberg and Colin O'Flynn (NewAE / ChipWhisperer) on real hardware attacks: bus sniffing, fault injection, side-channel power analysis, and the lab work that turns a black box into a known target.
Advanced5/5Jasper van Woudenberg, Colin O'Flynn08 · 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 Stubblefield09 · 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 Anderson10 · 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 Andriesse