Five Essential Books For Hackers

Are you ready to jump into the mysterious, adventurous and wondrous world of hacking? Pack your bag with these 5 must read books on hacking!

Hacking has always been one field of mystery and wonders. The idea of penetrating into someone's computer or network either ethically or unethically always sounds interesting and adventurous. While ethical hacking makes use of these programming skills to penetrate into a computer system and determine its vulnerabilities and suggest system changes to make it less penetrable, the non-ethical hackers penetrate into a computer system for mischief.

And with the increasing instances on hacking attacks on organizations, most of the organizations are seeking ethical hackers as their full-time employees or consultants to ensure security of their systems and information, which is making ethical hacking a highly moneymaking profession.

So if you are also an aspiring ethical hacker we bring to you 5 hack books that you must read:

1. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

One of the must read hack books which will guide you through the technicalities of areas like programming, shell code and exploitation. The book works equally well for both beginners and for those with very little knowledge and will make them understand the complexities of the digital security tasks. Written excellently this book will help you in learning all the clever stuff of gaining access to a system. This book is indeed the best buy.

2. The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy (Syngress Basics Series)

The book covers the complete basics of penetration testing and hacking. The book does not assume that you have any prior hacking knowledge and hence is apt for the beginners. The book provide step-by-step guide on of penetration testing, moving from Information Gathering to Scanning, Exploitation and finally, Report Writing. The book does not deal with individual concepts in-depth but rather provides wholesome picture of hacking.

3. Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide

Th book is based on concepts of Penetration Testing by making use of the open source Metasploit Framework testing. Even if you don't posses any prior knowledge of Metasploit, this book helps you through out. The tutorial-like appeal of the book makes you learn through practicals. Towards the end, the book provides you with an actual penetration test’s simulated version which will help you have a realistic experience.

4. BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

Instead of just explaining the theoretical concepts, the book puts together fine tuned and easily understandable tutorials. The book has a good mix of basics and high level information and works takes both level of readers together.

5. CEH Certified Ethical Hacker All-in-One Exam Guide

This indeed is one of the best well written books of hacking by now. It gives you crisp and clear explanations with relevant examples along with a humorous touch to give the the dry and brainy subject some light notes. The contents of the book is well organized. Although you might require some basic networking background to extract full benefits from the book.

Shivam Kotwalia, CodeKill