Reading
I read, review, recommend, and write books on digital security. A few years ago I created several Amazon.com Listmania Lists showing my favorite books, in three categories:
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I used to read and review dozens of books per year (17 in 2000, 42 in 2001, 24 in 2002, 33 in 2003, 33 in 2004, 26 in 2005, 52 in 2006, 25 in 2007, 20 in 2008, 15 in 2009). Now I almost exclusively focus on books which fill gaps in my knowledge. My Amazon.com Wish List shows books I'm keeping an eye on.
If you're an author or publisher, and you'd like me to review a book proposal or published work, email 'taosecurity at gmail dot com'.
Reading List
I plan to read the following titles.
- February 2010
- Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy
- Handbook of Digital Forensics Investigation
- The Rootkit Arsenal
- Hacking: The Next Generation
- March 2010
- Gray-Hat Hacking, 2nd Ed
- Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Ed
- Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet (pub Jan 10)
- April 2010
- Professional Assembly Language
- Introduction to Assembly Language Programming, 2nd Ed
- Cyber War (pub Apr 10)
- May 2010
- Digital Forensics for Network, Internet, and Cloud Computing (pub May 10)
- Virtualization and Forensics (pub May 10)
- Corporate Insecurity (pub May 10)
- June 2010
- Beginning C, 4th Ed
- C in a Nutshell
- Network Flow Analysis (pub May 10)
- July 2010
- August 2010
- Hacking Exposed: Wireless, 2nd Ed (pub Aug 10)
- FreeBSD Device Drivers (pub Jul 10)
- Methods and Metrics for Security Risk Management (pub Jul 10)
- September 2010
- Cloud Security (pub Jul 10)
- Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example (pub Jun 08)
- Windows via C/C++, 5th Ed (pub Dec 07)
- October 2010
- Windows System Programming 4th Ed (pub Mar 10)
- Windows Internals, 5th Ed (pub Jun 09)
- Advanced Windows Debugging
- Hacking Exposed: Virtualization and Cloud Computing (pub Oct 10)
- A Guide to Kernel Exploitation (pub Jul 10)
- November 2010
- Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
- UNIX Network Programming, 3rd Ed
- The IDA Pro Book
- The Art of Debugging with GDB
- Fuzzing
- December 2010
The Economist
Beyond digital security works, I read the best international news weekly on the planet -- the Economist. I've been a subscriber since 3 May 1997, when I wrote a check for $54.50 and committed to "take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." Given the Economist has been doing this since September 1843, they have a minor head start.