Best cybersecurity books from 2024

Extreme Privacy

What It Takes to Disappear

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.

OSINT Techniques

Resources for Uncovering Online Information

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.

Serious Cryptography

A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption

Jean-Philippe Aumasson's working introduction to modern cryptography, written for engineers who need both intuition and enough mathematical depth to evaluate the choices a library is making for them.

Black Hat Bash

Creative Scripting for Hackers and Pentesters

Nick Aleks and Dolev Farhi on getting offensive work done with the shell: privilege escalation tooling, lateral movement, and pipelining bash with the rest of the toolkit.

Evasive Malware

A Field Guide to Detecting, Analyzing, and Defeating Advanced Threats

Kyle Cucci on the anti-analysis arms race: sandbox detection, anti-debug, anti-VM, packing, and the analyst-side tooling and tradecraft that get past those layers.

Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations

The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data

Micah Lee on the operational craft of working with leaked datasets: authentication, OPSEC for sources and journalists, and the Python tooling to actually parse what arrives in your dropbox.

La cyberdéfense

French academic textbook on cyber defense — political, military, legal. The authors (researchers and former military-school faculty) cover the French organizational layer and the international ecosystem.

Locksport

A Hackers Guide to Lockpicking, Impressioning, and Safe Cracking

Five-author primer on the physical-security craft community: pin-tumbler internals, picking and impressioning technique, and competitive locksport.