"Stealing the network" series by Ryan Russel is awesome.
- Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box
- Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent
- Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity
- Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow
if you like books that combine fiction and technical detail, I can thoroughly recommend the "stealing the network" series. It has an intriguing overarching plot and the details are all accurate and technical-minded - the best comparison I can give is it's like "The Martian" but for cybersecurity.
I really enjoyed reading this book a fair few years ago on holiday "Stealing the network: how to own a continent"
(http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Network-How-Own-Continent/dp/...). Theres a few books in the series, they blend fiction with real security related attacks, its not strictly a programming book, they do delve into coding a few things if I remember correctly.
Check out the Stealing The Network series if you're into security -
it's a bunch of short stories about network security usually written from the POV of a hacker who's trying to gain access to a system. The stories are very tech-heavy to the point that parts of the stories are non-fiction, with huge excerpts from console sessions and the like.
I recall reading a series of books long ago called "Hacker's Challenge" which was similar to this, and equally thrilling. Each volume was essentially a set of whodunits - or rather, howdunits - regarding some network compromise situation, with the solutions at the end of the book. The author of the linked post is right here that there's something thrilling about this "genre". Nice to see more people writing this stuff.
Came here to make sure someone mentioned these. Might not qualify as great fiction imnho - but the technical detail more than makes up for it. And the books are entertaining.
I see people's mentioned Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" - while I loved "diamond age" and like "snowcrash" - I much prefer Singh's "the codebook" on a similar theme. Thrilling non-fiction.
On the more fiction side, I enjoyed Bruce Sterling's "The Zenith Angle" a lot.
And second the recommendations for Mitnick's books - both the autobiography "ghost in the wires" and the more free form "made up examples" in "the art of deception" (like many of the stories in the stealing the network books, "inspired" by true events...).
I'm looking for more books like the "Stealing the Network" series or the Jeff Aiken novels by Mark Russinovich. Books telling fictional stories about IT security and hacking using contemporary (or near-near future) believable (if not accurate) technology. It may sound harsh, but if you don't know the Stealing the Network books you may probably not know what I mean. They are to "hacking" novels like the movie Gravity is to Sci-Fi movies. Or to stay in movie terms: more "Sneakers" than "Password: Swordfish". ;)
I'm just interested in fictional "hacking" books, that don't make you cringe all the time if you know a thing or two about the subject.
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