After founding an infosec company Signal Sciences in 2014, I've spent a number of years learning about and explaining many myths that exist on security and hacking. I just published a book with O'Reilly that is designed to provide some baseline information for people who don't have direct experience working in security debunking many of those myths.

It's called Cracking Security Misconceptions and it's available as a free ebook here: http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/cracking-security-mi...

It's only 35 pages so as to not require a huge investment of time to ingest by design. My goal in creating the content is that it can help you, or someone you know, understand the realities facing modern information security professionals.

~ Andrew, CEO Signal Sciences