Top 3 Best hacking books for beginners 2020 | Hackersinfoline
Hacking can either be ethical and unethical. An unethical hacker, also known as a black hat hacker, exploits vulnerabilities for personal gains. An ethical hacker, also known as a white hat hacker, on the other hand, helps businesses and organisations by finding vulnerabilities in their systems before malicious hackers do.
In this guide, you will find the ten best hacking books that you can read if you want to become an ethical hacker or want to improve your existing hacking skills.
Top 3 Best Hacking Books for Ethical Hackers 2020
1.The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
The Hardware Hacker is a book authored by Andrew “bunnie” Huang, one of the most respected hackers in the world. Huang has for decades shaped the hacking and hardware fields “from his cult-classic book Hacking the Xbox to the open-source laptop Novena and his mentorship of various hardware startups and developers”. In the book The Hardware Hacker, Huang shares his experience in open hardware and manufacturing by looking back on his career journey.About the Author
Andrew "bunnie" Huang is a hacker, maker, and open hardware activist. He holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from MIT, is the author of Hacking the Xbox (No Starch Press) and The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen, and has served as a technical advisor for various hardware startups and MAKE Magazine.
2.Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson is considered one of the best hacking books of all time especially for beginners. It covers everything from machine architecture to programming coupled with network communications and the latest hacking techniques. Instead of just showing readers how to run existing exploits, Erickson also details how black hat hacking techniques work. He uses the book to share how hacking is accessible to everyone by introducing the basics of C programming from the perspective of a hacker.
Also included with the book is a CD that offers readers a complete Linux programming and debugging environment without the need to modify your existing operating system. Use the CD alongside the examples in the book to debug code, hijack network communications, overflow buffers, bypass protections and develop your own exploits.
3.Ethical Hacking And Penetration Testing Guide
Requiring no prior hacking experience, ethical hacking and penetration testing guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or ethical hack, from beginning to end. You will learn how to properly utilize and interpret the results of modern-day hacking tools, which are required to complete a penetration test. The book covers a wide range of tools, including backtrack Linux, Google Reconnaissance, metagoofil, dig, Nmap, nessus, Metasploit, fast Track autopwn, NET cat, and hacker defender rootkits. Supplying a simple and clean explanation of how to effectively utilize these tools, it details a four-step methodology for conducting an effective penetration test or hack.Providing an accessible introduction to penetration testing and hacking, the book supplies you with a fundamental understanding of offensive security. After completing the book you will be prepared to take on in-depth and Advanced topics in hacking and penetration testing. The book walks you through each of the steps and tools in a structured, orderly manner allowing you to understand how the output from each tool can be fully utilized in the subsequent phases of the penetration test. This process will allow you to clearly see how the various tools and phases relate to each other. An ideal resource for those who want to learn about ethical hacking but don't know where to start, this book will help take your hacking skills to the next level. The topics described in this book comply with international standards and with what is being taught in international certifications.About the Author
Rafay Baloch is the founder/CEO of RHA InfoSec. He runs one of the top security blogs in Pakistan with more than 25, 000 subscribers (http://rafayhackingarticles.net). He has participated in various bug bounty programs and has helped several major Internet corporations such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, eBay, etc., to improve their Internet security. Rafay was successful in finding a remote code execution vulnerability along with several other high-risk vulnerabilities inside PayPal, for which he was awarded a huge sum of money as well as an offer to work for PayPal. His major areas of research interest are in network security, bypassing modern security defenses such as WAFs, DOM-based XSS, and other HTML 5–based attack vectors. Rafay holds CPTE, CPTC, CSWAE, CVA, CSS, OSCP, CCNA R & S, CCNP Route, and eWAPT certifications.
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