Top 10 Hacking books for beginners to start with

Best hacking books will provide you best hacking knowledge and inspiration.

In this digital era all digital platforms are connected with each other. So, your data is not protected and your privacy can be breached any time. If you know ethical hacking you can protect your data from third party. For this you need a lot of knowledge. Only having technical skills is not enough. That is the reason you should be reading books that are related to hacking and hackers.

Here are 10 best hacking books recommended for beginners and advanced.

The basics of hacking and penetration testing

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• This book will let you know the steps needed to complete a penetration test to perform an ethical hack from start to end.
• From this book you will learn how to correctly use and understand the results of modern-day appliances such as Backtrack and Kali Linux, Google reconnaissance, MetaGooFil, Metasploit, the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) and many more.
• Clean and straightforward solution will help you to obtain a better knowledge of attacking security.
• There are many examples, exercises in each chapter and also extra resources to enhance your knowledge.

Hacking: The art of exploitation

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• In this book you will know about techniques of exploitation and creative problem solving methods of hacking.
• This book will let you know how hackers exploit programs.
• From this book you will know about hacking techniques like overflowing buffers, hijacking network communications.
• With this book you will get a CD which will help you to practice what you read.

Kali Linux – an Ethical hacker’s cookbook

Highlights:

• From this book You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp and JexBoss.
• This book will help you to learn the technique of carrying out wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng.
• From this book you will learn how to use tools such as Metasploit, Wireshark, and N-map to detect vulnerabilities with ease.
• At the end of this book you will get knowledge of conducting advanced penetration testing and write detailed reports for patching vulnerabilities.

Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide

Highlights:

• This book is highly recommended for beginners.
• This book will not only help you master Metasploit, it will give you different approaches that can be deployed to a variety of pen tests.
• This book provides you excellent coverage of all features in Metasploit.
• This book covers all testing methods of Metasploit.

Penetration testing: A hands-on introduction to hacking

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• This book will help you to know necessary skills and techniques that every pentester needs.
• This book is contained with practical lessons, tools, and a machine-based lab which is effective to learn how a hacker gains access to security systems, cracks network keys and passwords.
• Most importantly this book is helpful for both experienced and beginners.
• Example based learning of this book will give you best knowledge of hacking.

The hacker playbook 3

Highlights:

• This book will guide you to learn plenty of hacking features.
• The Hacker Playbook is contained with penetration testing tool named as Burp suite.
• This book will offer you hands-on examples and helpful advice from the top of the field.
• The book includes test cases for attacks and provides more customized code.

Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters

Highlights:

• Black Hat Python is contained with hacking tools such as Burp Suite to find their different vulnerabilities.
• This book will guide you on how to address network sniffers, manipulating packets, infecting virtual machines, creating private trojans, and many more.
• Fantastic features of this book will guide you on how to continue the successful Burp Suite web-hacking tool, so, that you can build and design your plugins.
• You will never loos your interest because the language is very crisp and to the point.

The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

Highlights:

• The book is for both beginners and intermediate learners.
• This hacking book guides you all the information step-by-step starting from how to strike and then how to defend web applications.
• This book shows advanced hacking attack techniques that have been developed, particularly to the client-side.
• The book is contained with new remoting frameworks, HTML5, cross-domain integration techniques, UI redress, frame busting, hybrid file attacks, and more.

Web Application Defender’s Cookbook: Battling Hackers and Protecting Users

Highlights:

• This book will show you how attackers and hackers identify and attack vulnerable live web applications.
• In this book you will get details defensive security methods.
• This book provides you practical tactics for detecting web attacks and malicious behavior and defending against them.
• Most importantly you will get over 100recipes valuable tips on how to secure web applications.

Real-World Bug Hunting: A Field Guide to Web Hacking

Highlights:

• This book provides you depth knowledge of all the important topics in regards to Web Application Security / Bug Hunting.
• This book is contained with most common web vulnerability types like Open Redirect, HTTP Parameter Pollution, Cross-Site Request Forgery, HTML Injection, Carriage Return Line Feed Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, SSRF and many more.
• The most interesting section of this book is Finding your own Bug Bounties. In this section you will get everything from Reconnaissance over Application Testing and how to Automate your testing, etc.
• In this book complicated topics are written in quite easy way to understand.