Information Security, Penetration Testing, Social Engineering, Counter-Intelligence, Hacker/Hacking Culture and History.

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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker 3.96 avg rating — 26,861 ratings
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Social Engineering
Social Engineering 3.83 avg rating — 3,812 ratings
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon 4.17 avg rating — 8,045 ratings
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security 3.76 avg rating — 7,160 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage 4.28 avg rating — 15,262 ratings
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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws 4.23 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking
Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking 4.17 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution 4.16 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive 3.78 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers 3.91 avg rating — 3,571 ratings
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers 4.35 avg rating — 9,507 ratings
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race 4.32 avg rating — 10,654 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution 4.16 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
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Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell 4.20 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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Red Team Field Manual
Red Team Field Manual
by: Ben Clark
4.23 avg rating — 984 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information
This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information 4.01 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography 4.30 avg rating — 28,487 ratings
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We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency 3.97 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation 4.17 avg rating — 2,463 ratings
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground 3.97 avg rating — 8,012 ratings
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Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters 4.11 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Future Crimes
Future Crimes 3.93 avg rating — 4,364 ratings
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The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction
The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction 4.38 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash 4.01 avg rating — 293,451 ratings
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Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door 3.75 avg rating — 2,729 ratings
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The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide to Penetration Testing
The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide to Penetration Testing
by: Peter Kim
3.96 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition: A condensed field guide for the Cyber Security Incident Responder.
Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition: A condensed field guide for the Cyber Security Incident Responder. 4.12 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems 4.21 avg rating — 696 ratings
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The Art of Intelligence
The Art of Intelligence 3.84 avg rating — 3,108 ratings
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Web Penetration Testing: Hack Your Way
Web Penetration Testing: Hack Your Way 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Breaking And Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
Breaking And Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien" 3.79 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire 4.25 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
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Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier 4.16 avg rating — 640 ratings
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race 4.32 avg rating — 10,654 ratings
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Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide
Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide 4.07 avg rating — 863 ratings
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Applied Network Security Monitoring: Collection, Detection, and Analysis
Applied Network Security Monitoring: Collection, Detection, and Analysis 4.20 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Alif the Unseen
Alif the Unseen 3.84 avg rating — 17,850 ratings
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Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World 3.93 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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Chinese intelligence operations
Chinese intelligence operations 3.72 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes
The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes 4.15 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet 3.94 avg rating — 4,851 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 3.89 avg rating — 354,038 ratings
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Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2)
Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2) 4.21 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography 3.78 avg rating — 963 ratings
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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology 3.94 avg rating — 9,146 ratings
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Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning
Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning 4.36 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy 4.07 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation
Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation 4.05 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World
Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World 3.88 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War 3.90 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
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The Dream Machine
The Dream Machine 4.55 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World 3.75 avg rating — 2,303 ratings
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Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace
Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace 4.26 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It
Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It 3.73 avg rating — 2,442 ratings
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Trojan Horse (Jeff Aiken, #2)
Trojan Horse (Jeff Aiken, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
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America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare
America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare 3.84 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Counterintelligence: Theory and Practice
Counterintelligence: Theory and Practice 3.87 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know® 3.83 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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Hacking the Human: Social Engineering Techniques and Security Countermeasures
Hacking the Human: Social Engineering Techniques and Security Countermeasures
by: Ian Mann
3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Rethinking IT Security: What needs to be said. How can we solve the IT security problem long term?
Rethinking IT Security: What needs to be said. How can we solve the IT security problem long term? 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Moral Panic
Moral Panic
by: K.M. Ecke
4.12 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Computer Incident Response and Forensics Team Management: Conducting a Successful Incident Response
Computer Incident Response and Forensics Team Management: Conducting a Successful Incident Response 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Soul Snatchers
The Soul Snatchers 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Best Practices for Protecting Your Small or Medium Size Business from Phishing
Best Practices for Protecting Your Small or Medium Size Business from Phishing
by: DuoCircle
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Digital Downfall: Technology, Cyberattacks and the End of the American Republic
Digital Downfall: Technology, Cyberattacks and the End of the American Republic 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know 3.95 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity
The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity 3.89 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Zero Ri$k
Zero Ri$k 4.46 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Crafting the InfoSec Playbook: Security Monitoring and Incident Response Master Plan
Crafting the InfoSec Playbook: Security Monitoring and Incident Response Master Plan 4.02 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker
Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker
by: Ed Piskor
3.69 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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The Blue Nowhere
The Blue Nowhere 3.99 avg rating — 11,734 ratings
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Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest 3.61 avg rating — 349 ratings
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The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election 4.08 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
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The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War 4.15 avg rating — 1,431 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information 4.01 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World 3.83 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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How Not to Be Hacked
How Not to Be Hacked 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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IN Security: Why a Failure to Attract and Retain Women in Cybersecurity is Making Us All Less Safe
IN Security: Why a Failure to Attract and Retain Women in Cybersecurity is Making Us All Less Safe 4.41 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at Mit
Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at Mit 3.73 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage 3.97 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Confident Cyber Security: How to Get Started in Cyber Security and Futureproof Your Career (Confident Series)
Confident Cyber Security: How to Get Started in Cyber Security and Futureproof Your Career (Confident Series) 4.08 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier 3.85 avg rating — 838 ratings
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Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft
Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft 4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age 3.86 avg rating — 1,930 ratings
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The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey 4.19 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care 3.88 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age 3.98 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
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Zero Day: China's Cyber Wars (Logan Alexander #3)
Zero Day: China's Cyber Wars (Logan Alexander #3) 3.55 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime 3.18 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Security In Computing, 4Th Edition
Security In Computing, 4Th Edition 3.72 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Lucky Ghost
Lucky Ghost 3.53 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats 4.03 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction
Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age
Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture 4.14 avg rating — 344 ratings
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The Art of Cyber Conflict
The Art of Cyber Conflict 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath 3.71 avg rating — 5,479 ratings
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The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare
The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare 3.39 avg rating — 98 ratings
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