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Derek Vadala
Derek Vadala is the author of Managing RAID on Linux and has published articles in the Perl Journal and SysAdmin magazine. He works as an information security professional in the financial services industry in New York City.
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 Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions
by Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, George Kurtz
ISBN 0072260815
McGraw-Hill
April 2005
There were plenty of security books before Hacking Exposed, but this one raised the bar. Many similar texts were Unix-centric up until this point, Hacking Exposed helped a lot of us Unix hackers get up to speed on Windows security shortcomings.
 PHP Cookbook
by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg
ISBN 0596101015
O'Reilly Media
August 2006
(The author's original choice was an older edition that is now out of print. This link is to the current edition)
In 2002, I found myself working a contract job for a PHP on LAMP site. Being a Perl hacker, and a learn-by-example type, the PHP cookbook never let me down. In mere seconds it provided every syntactical and logical translation I needed to go from Perl to PHP.
 Know Your Enemy: Learning About Security Threats
by The Honeynet Project
ISBN 0321166469
Addison-Wesley
May 2004
This book greatly extends Lance Spitzner's earlier white paper of the same name and digs deeply into the security research benefits of watching blackhats, script kiddies and automated malware. It's both philosophical and hands on, and makes for a great home networking project too.
 Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
ISBN 0596000278
O'Reilly Media
July 2000
Like many others, I learned Perl's details almost entirely from this compendium. I still refer to it often and recommend it to anyone I know that is learning about the topic.
 Using Samba
by Jay T's, David Collier-Brown and Robert Eckstein
ISBN 0596007698
O'Reilly Media
December 2006
(The author's original choice was an older edition that is now out of print. This link is to the current edition)
If you administer Samba, or simply use it to share files on your home network, this book is exceedingly useful, but it's the chapter on troubleshooting that really shines. I think it's the best tutorial on how to troubleshoot a technical problem that I have ever read.
 Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
by Andrew "bunnie" Huang
ISBN 1593270291
No Starch
August 2003
Andrew "bunnie" Huang's guide to dismantling, upgrading and improving the Xbox was the best technical book I read in 2003. His second chapter, on how a hardware hacker thinks, is worth a read, even if you don't own the console.
 Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition
by David Pogue
ISBN 0596006152
O'Reilly Media
December 2003
All of your friends have Macs now, and as a Linux geek, you have to front like you know what you're talking about, especially since you keep mumbling "It's Unix now" every time they ask for your help. David Pogue's book has never failed me.
 Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wiley Hacker
by William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin and Aviel D. Rubin
ISBN 020163466X
Addison-Wesley
February 2003
This used to be the only book on the subject, and while this title should be a relic of the previous ten years, it was updated in 2003 and holds up technically to more modern texts. This is always one of the first security books I recommend to newcomers.
 Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in a Uncertain World
by Bruce Schneier
ISBN 0387026207
Springer
July 2003
This is a great book to give non-technical friends. Schneier dispels the security misinformation that has become so common in our day-to-day lives by turning post 9/11 security politics on end.
Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design
by Electronic Frontier Foundation
ISBN 1565925203
O'Reilly Media
(Out of Print)
This book is now available in electronic form and it's out of print. I think it's probably the most important technical book in the last decade. It showed what a dedicated, politically-driven effort could do to a widely accepted security practice.
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