Having worked in Cybereducation for a a few years now, I am sometimes asked what sort of books or further study is out there on the cyber world. There are plenty of technical and academic books on all manner of subjects, but sometimes you want something other than a technical manual to read at night or on a lunch break.I put together this list of books from a few different sources (at the time of this writing, I'm slowly making my way through each of them in no particular order).
- Spam Nation - how and why spam is so lucrative and how the spammers are organized
- Countdown to Zero Day - how and why the Stuxnet worm was created
- Worm: The First Digital World War - the emergence of Conficker and efforts to stop it
- Dark Territory: history of cyber war - history of US government's efforts to manage national security in an online world
- Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations - how the US leverages cyber as part of its defense strategy
- Click Here to Kill Everybody - considering security in a digital world regarding prevalence of IoT
- The Cuckoo's Egg - one of the earliest cases of computer espionage, Stoll tracks an early hacker
- The Code Book - historical look at different codes/ciphers
- Tubes - a layman's look a the physical infrastructure of the internet - still an interesting perspective on stuff I'd never considered