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Cybersecurity Books Recommended on Hacker News

These cybersecurity books are ranked using Hacker News discussions, comment activity, and editorial review. The collection covers web application security, reverse engineering, malware analysis, cryptography, threat modeling, security risk measurement, and industrial control systems.

Top 5 quick picks

#1 The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws #2 Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering #3 Learning Malware Analysis #4 Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C #5 Threat Modeling: Designing for Security

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws cover

1. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto

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Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering cover

2. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

by Eldad Eilam

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Learning Malware Analysis cover

3. Learning Malware Analysis

by Monnappa K A

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C cover

4. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

by Bruce Schneier

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Threat Modeling: Designing for Security cover

5. Threat Modeling: Designing for Security

by Adam Shostack

Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us cover

6. Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us

How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk cover

7. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk

by Douglas W. Hubbard, Richard Seiersen

Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, and SIS cover

8. Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, and SIS

by Tyson Macaulay, Bryan L. Singer