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Best cybersecurity books from 2011
6 cybersecurity books published in 2011, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for.
01 · 2011
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Kevin Poulsen's reconstruction of Max Butler's career — from white-hat consultant to running CardersMarket, the carding forum that consolidated the early-2000s underground — and the FBI investigation that finally took him down.
Beginner5/5Kevin Poulsen02 · 2011
The Tangled Web
A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
The deepest book ever written on the strange, accreted security model of the web browser.
Advanced5/5Michal Zalewski03 · 2011
A Bug Hunter's Diary
A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security
Tobias Klein walks through seven real vulnerabilities he found and exploited, in the form of personal lab notes, what he tried, what failed, and what eventually shipped to vendors.
Intermediate4/5Tobias Klein04 · 2011
Ghost in the Wires
My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin Mitnick's first-person account of his 1990s social-engineering and phone-system intrusions, foreword by Steve Wozniak. Self-promotional in tone but a primary source on a defining era.
Beginner4/5Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon05 · 2011
The IDA Pro Book
The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler
Chris Eagle's deep manual on IDA Pro, the disassembler that defined a generation of reverse engineering. Useful even with Ghidra in the picture, since most malware-analysis literature still assumes IDA.
Intermediate4/5Chris Eagle06 · 2011
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws
The exhaustive reference for web app pentesting, comprehensive but increasingly a historical document.
Intermediate4/5Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto