// Alternatives
Alternatives to iOS Application Security
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to iOS Application Security. If iOS Application Security is the wrong fit at intermediate level, start here.
01 · 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 Whitehouse02 · 2021
Real-World Cryptography
David Wong's hands-on tour of the cryptographic primitives, protocols and pitfalls that show up in actual production systems, with deliberate attention to TLS, Noise, modern AEAD, and post-quantum.
Intermediate5/5David Wong03 · 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.
Intermediate5/5Loren Kohnfelder04 · 2014
Threat Modeling
Adam Shostack's practitioner-oriented introduction to threat modeling: STRIDE, attack trees, and how to fit the practice into a real software-development lifecycle.
Intermediate5/5Adam Shostack05 · 2023
Black Hat GraphQL
Aleks and Farhi on attacking GraphQL specifically: introspection abuse, batching, depth and complexity attacks, auth flaws, and the differences from REST that make GraphQL pentests their own discipline.
Intermediate4/5Nick Aleks, Dolev Farhi06 · 2022
Hacking APIs
Corey Ball's structured approach to attacking REST and GraphQL APIs: enumeration, auth flaws, business logic, mass assignment, and the testing harness around them.
Intermediate4/5Corey J. Ball07 · 2011
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
The exhaustive reference for web app pentesting, comprehensive but increasingly a historical document.
Intermediate4/5Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto08 · 2010
Cryptography Engineering
A working engineer's introduction to cryptography that takes implementation pitfalls more seriously than most.
Intermediate4/5Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno09 · 2011
The Tangled Web
The deepest book ever written on the strange, accreted security model of the web browser.
Advanced5/5Michal Zalewski10 · 2006
The Art of Software Security Assessment
The 1200-page reference on auditing C/C++ codebases for security: parsing complex memory and integer interactions, language pitfalls, and how vulnerabilities arise from interactions between layers.
Advanced5/5Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh