Here is a helpful set of books, websites and programs. Many students ask me to recommend books and tools for various things and rather than make a static paper copy I decided to post a page here for that purpose.
Books
Social Engineering
- Influence, Robert Cialdini
Computer Security
- Security Warrior, Cyrus Peikari
- Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Kevin Mandia
Computer History
- Hackers, Steven Levy
Websites
- http://www.slashdot.org/
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/
- http://www.wired.com/
- http://www.arstechnica.com/
- http://www.sans.org/
Tools
- Metasploit, http://www.metasploit.org/
- John the Ripper, http://www.openwall.org/
- nmap, http://www.nmap.org/
- Gentoo Linux, http://www.gentoo.org/
