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// Prerequisites

What to read before Android Security Internals

If Android Security Internals feels too steep at advanced level, here is what to read first. Lighter books in the same topics that build the prerequisites this one assumes.

MobileAndroidOperating Systems

  1. 01 · 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.

    Intermediate
    3/5David Thiel

  2. 02 · 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.

    Intermediate
    3/5Dominic Chell, Tyrone Erasmus, Shaun Colley, Ollie Whitehouse

  3. 03 · 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.

    Advanced
    5/5Pavel Yosifovich, Alex Ionescu, Mark Russinovich, David Solomon

  4. 04 · 2021

    Designing Secure Software

    Loren Kohnfelder, the original PKI author, on how to weave security thinking through requirements, design, implementation and operations rather than bolt it on at the end.

    Intermediate
    5/5Loren Kohnfelder

  5. 05 · 2024

    Extreme Privacy

    Michael Bazzell's defender-side companion to OSINT Techniques: a step-by-step program for removing yourself from data brokers, public records, and the everyday surveillance economy without going off-grid.

    Intermediate
    5/5Michael Bazzell

  6. 06 · 2008

    Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

    A from-first-principles tour of low-level exploitation that still teaches the mindset two decades later.

    Intermediate
    5/5Jon Erickson

  7. 07 · 2024

    OSINT Techniques

    Michael Bazzell's relentlessly updated technical manual for finding people, accounts, breach data, geolocation evidence, and online identifiers — the de facto reference of the modern OSINT field.

    Intermediate
    5/5Michael Bazzell

  8. 08 · 2012

    Practical Malware Analysis

    Still the gold standard textbook for static and dynamic malware analysis on Windows.

    Intermediate
    5/5Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig
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