Computer Security Books
1/22/2003
Network and Server Security
Anonymous, Maximum Security (3rd ed.), Sams, 2001.
Bauer, Building Secure Servers With Linux, O’Reilly, 2002.
Garfinkel/Spafford, Web Security, Privacy and Commerce (2nd ed.), O’Reilly, 2002.
Hatch/Lee, Hacking Exposed – Linux, McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2002.
Herrmann, A Practical Guide to Data Security and Information Assurance, CRC Press,
2001.
Kaufman/Perlman/Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public
World (2nd ed.), Prentice Hall, 2002.
McClure/Scambray/Kurtz, Hacking Exposed (3rd ed.), McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001.
Scambray/McClure, Hacking Exposed – Windows 2000, McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001.
Scambray/Shema, Hacking Exposed – Web Applications, McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2002.
Schiffman, et. al., Hackers Challenge, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001.
Schiffman, et. al., Hackers Challenge 2, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002.
Toxen, Real World Linux Security (2nd ed.), Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Zwicky, et. al., Building Internet Firewalls (2nd ed.), O’Reilly, 2000.
Programming Security
Oaks, Java Security (2nd ed.), O’Reilly, 2001.
Viega & McGraw, Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right
Way, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Cryptography
Schneier, Applied Cryptography (2nd ed.), Wiley, 1995.
Singh, The Code Book, Anchor Books, 1999. (historical chapters about
cryptography/cryptanalysis)
Stinson, Cryptography: Theory and Practice (2nd ed.), Chapman and Hall, 2002.
Viega/Messier/Chandra, Network Security with OpenSSL, O’Reilly, 2002.
Physical Security
Garcia, The Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems, Butterworth /
Heinemann, 2001.
History/Stories
Mitnick, The Art of Deception, Wiley, 2002.
Hafner/Markoff, Cyberpunk, Touchstone, 1995.
Shimomura, Takedown, Hyperion, 1996.
Singh, The Code Book, Anchor Books, 1999. (historical chapters about
cryptography/cryptanalysis)
Viruses
Ludwig, The Little Black Book of Viruses, American Eagle, 1993 (out of print).
Ludwig, The Little Black Book of Email Viruses, American Eagle, 2002.