These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more

In the past thirty years or so, cybersecurity has moved from being a specialized specialization in the field of larger computer science, to an industry valued at more than $ 170 billion made of a society of infiltrators. On the other hand, the growth of industry, prominent breakthroughs such as Sony Breach 2015, penetration and dropouts in the 2016 US elections, Ransomber’s attack, and an endless list of Chinese government supernatural, have made cybersecurity and piracy prevailing.

Pop -sterinized pop culture with successful TV programs such as Mr. RobotAnd films like Leave the world behind. But perhaps the most abundant means of cybersecurity stories – whether imagination and based on reality – are books.

We sponsored the list of the best cyber security books, based on the books that we have read ourselves, and those that society proposed to Mastodon and Bluesky.

This book list (without a specific order) will be updated periodically.

The countdown to zero dayKim Ziter

The electronic attack by Israeli infiltrators and the American government known as Stuxnet, which has damaged the central expulsion of the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz. the The most famous penetration in history. Because of its influence, development, and absolute boldness, the attack on imagination was acquired not only for the cyber security community, but the largest audience as well.

Veteran journalist Kim Ziter tells the Stuxnet story by dealing with harmful programs as a letter to be determined. To achieve this, Zetter made interviews with all the main investigators who found the harmful code, analyzed how it succeeded, and discovered what it did. You should read to anyone working in the cyber field, but it is also a great introduction to the world of cyberspace and Cyberspionage for ordinary people.

Dark wireJoseph Cox

There were no bolder and daring bites than the FBI TOJAN SHIELD operation, where Feds ran an emerging company called Anom that sold encrypted phones to some of the worst criminals in the world, from prominent drug smugglers to the esteemed mob.

These criminals believed that they were using specially designed communication devices to avoid monitoring. In fact, all their messages, pictures, and supposed vote notes have been transferred to the FBI and their international law enforcement partners. 404, media journalist Joseph Cox brilliantly tells the story of Anum, with interviews with the mastermind of the sting operation at the FBI, developers and workers who managed the startup, and criminals who use devices.

CuckooCleep Stol

In 1986, the astronomer, Cleef Stoll, was assigned to a variation of $ 0.75 to use the computer network in his laboratory. At this stage, the Internet was mostly a network for government institutions and academic institutions, and these organizations have paid depending on the amount of time they spent online. Throughout the next year, STOLL pulled the strict strands of what appeared to be a simple incident and ended up discovering one of the first e -registered registration cases ever, in this case that KGB did.

Stoll not only was my ambiguity, but also accelerated and turned it into a spy movie. It is difficult to reduce the importance of this book. When he came out in 1989, the infiltrators were barely representing the audience’s imagination. Cuckoo Young cyber security fans showed how to investigate an electronic incident, and showed to the broader audience that stories about computer spies can be exciting like those of James Bond.

Your face belongs to usKashmir Hill

The face recognition soon moved from a strong technology in films and TV programs-but it was in fact ground and inaccurate in real life-to a relatively important and accurate tool for law enforcement in its daily operations. Technology correspondent has long tells Kashmir Hill the history of technology by the rise of one of the controversial startups that made it prevalent: Clearview AI.

Unlike other books known to operate, one of the founders of Clearview AI at least partially participates with Hill in an attempt to tell his side of the story, but the journalist did a lot of work to deceive the facts-and in some cases reveal-some of the sources she heard from the sources of her company. Hill is the best writer in his position to tell the story of Clearview AI after it first revealed its presence in 2020, giving the book the narration of the first person in some sections.

The worship of the dead cowJoseph Min

Joseph Maine tells the cybersecurity reporter, the stunning, true background story of the impressive worship of the dead cow, one of the oldest expected collections of the eighties and nineties, and how they helped convert early internet to what has become today. The members of the group include major names, from executives and technological activists, some of whom continued to advise the presidents and testimony to the legislators, to the security heroes who helped secure many modern technologies and communications in the world.

The Menn book celebrates what the infiltrators have achieved, building them, and broke the way along the way in the name of improving cybersecurity, freedom of expression and expression, and privacy rights, and it records the history of the early internet penetration scene as some of the people who lived it narrated.

Hypocrisy for the futureEmily Kroos

“Hypocrisy to the Future” is a basic reading of anyone who wants to understand the amazing and rich history of the world of piracy and many cultures. The author of the book, Emily Kroos, who is infiltrated and a security researcher through trade, covers some of the first breaches that were rooted in harm, and even the modern era, with no details of contracts between them.

This book is searched deeply, represents well, partial and partial history of the infiltrators society that has turned from space space errors that reach a phone to record long -distance calls, becoming a strong society that practices geopolitical power and has appeared prominently in the main culture.

FollowAndy Greenberg

The concept of cryptocurrency was born in 2008, a white paper published by a mysterious personality (and is still unknown) called Satoshi Nakamoto. This was the basis for Bitcoin, and now, about 20 years later, Crypto has become its own manufacture and merged itself into the global financial system. Crypto is also very popular among infiltrators, low -level fraudsters, to spies and developed North Korean government thieves.

In this book, Wired’s Andy Greenberg explains a series of prominent investigations that relied on digital money through Blockchain. Greenberg has an interview with the investigators who worked in these cases, behind the scenes of the leading process of removing the leading Web Web Marketplace market, as well as operations against the dark web penetration markets (ALPHA Bay), and the “Great” website for sexual assault on children in the world “Welcome to the video”.

Dark mirrorBarton Gilman

More than a decade ago, the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, blew widely widely for the global monitoring of the United States government by leaking thousands of higher secret files to a handful of journalists. Barton Gilman, one of these journalists, was a correspondent at the time Washington Post, who later registered in his book Dark mirror The internal story of Snowden’s initial communication and the process of verifying and reporting the cache of the classified government files provided by those informed of violations.

From a secret clicking on the visual cables of the private fiber that connects data centers in some of the largest companies in the world, to the secret intrusion of legislators and world leaders, the files detailed how the National Security Agency and its global allies were able to spy on almost anyone in the world. Dark mirror It is not just a look back at the same time in history, but the first person narrated how to investigate Gilman, to report and break it in some of the most influential and important press in the twenty -first century, and it must be required to read to all cyber journalists.