Tens of millions of copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have been sold worldwide Left on the bookshelf Vulnerability assessments: Systematically evaluating systems to discover and prioritize potential vulnerabilities. Hapless everyman Arthur Dent is saved from the destruction of earth by a race of bureaucratic aliens by his friend, who turns out to be a stranded researcher of the eponymous guidebook. This book has it all. You will learn a bit about Programming, Exploitation, Networking, Shellcode, Countermeasures, and Cryptology. Frankly speaking, I still recommend this book today. Nobody is ever who they claim to be, and appearances can be deceiving: “Computers don’t lie, but liars can compute.” 8) Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (1992)

In classic bildungsroman fashion with a satisfying dose of surrealism, the novel charts the progress of each individual “cog” amidst the ever-moving machine of life. In the near future, climate change has created an economic crisis. People escape from their hellish everyday existence by dropping into a virtual reality world, called ‘Oasis’.

How to exploit REST frameworks, HTML5, CSS, and JSON to gain access to applications and to compromise users. In a soulless dystopian future, genetic engineering determines people’s fate from birth as members of an intelligence-based pre-defined caste. Consumption and conformity are the rules of the day. Constructed on at least three levels of reality and told through an artificially intelligent stream of consciousness, the physical embodiment of data foreshadows the prevalent and powerful role that data will play in our very modern, brave new world. Only a small group of “savages” remain. When a woman exiled to her savage reservation and the son, she gave birth to in the wilderness are returned to “civilization” tragedy ensues. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

Another interesting part of the book is that you learn how to chain together multiple vulnerabilities to maximize the impact (and reward) of your findings. The ‘Red Team Field Manual v2’ (RTFM v2) is an essential evolution from its first edition, now enriched with over 290 new commands and updated techniques to challenge modern systems. This version makes a significant leap by including a dedicated section for macOS, which was absent in its predecessor. I devoured this book in no time. I had so much fun reading it that I blazed through it within a week, which is very unusual for me. Radcliffe’s journey continues up service staircases and across rooftops to financial institutions in London and Europe to the mansions of dodgy geezers in the far east. There are plenty of hairy moments, near misses and some actual tumbles along the way, including a fall from a roof in Romania. She was doing a surveillance job, watching a cafe across the street from the roof of her hotel, when she slipped, landing on a narrow ledge. Any distance either side and she would have fallen four storeys, but she escaped with bumps and bruises.Radcliffe has written a book, an entertaining chronicle of capers, a journey that begins as an illicit obstacle course on Merseyside, then adds elements of psychology and play-acting, and gains momentum and legitimacy as it progresses.

Set inside a world transformed by nanotechnology, the novel’s main theme is the role of technology and personal relationships in child development. The book also explores a cultural conflict between East and West.Another interesting part of the book is that you learn how to chain together multiple vulnerabilities to maximize the impact (and reward) of your findings. This was by far my favorite part. Stoll, an astronomer turned systems administrator, becomes a detective on the hunt for an allusive quarry, who turned out to be a German national selling secrets to the Russians during the height of the Cold War.

An alternative history novel set around 15 years after the Axis powers win World War II. The US is conquered and divided between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, who have become competing superpowers.This second version of the book has been completely overhauled with over 290 new commands and techniques from field notes of numerous Red Team missions. It covers modern operating systems, includes a new Mac OS section, and outlines tradecraft considerations. She was a “HQ Hunter” in the TV show “HUNTED” for Channel 4, were she performed various OSINT and undercover roles and was seconded to the special operations unit of the show. Hair and makeup: Neusa Neves at Arlington Artists using Suqqu, and Innersense hair care. Photograph: David Vintiner/The Guardian Sitting in the atrium, she tells me that shared buildings come with their problems. “You’re only as secure as the company that is least secure; public space provides a real challenge.” Nineteen Eighty-Four offers a stark warning against totalitarianism 9) I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes (2013)