3 Books Every Starting Hacker Should Read
These books contain essential pieces of information every hacker needs to know
Even in this day and age of endless blogposts, YouTube videos, Instagram reels, and other forms of digital media books have continued to have a place in society. The best training and education I have had as a hacker has come from reading and these three books will be immensely helpful in your journey as a hacker.
Number one on the list is:
“Getting Started Becoming A Master Hacker” by Occupytheweb.
OTW is one of the best cyber authors in the business and this book is an amazing guide to getting start hacking. This book covers the hacking process from start to finish. Covering some of the most significant hacks and exploit developments in hacking history, then transitioning into each portion of the hacking process from reconnaissance, to exploitation, to sniffing and packet analysis, web hacking, evasion, etc. This book covers all the basics you need to know to start hacking. I cannot say this enough but this is an immensely useful books for the novice hacker.
Number two on the list is:
“Linux Basics For Hackers” by Occupytheweb
In the world of hacking Linux is the king of operating systems. Kali, Parrot Sec, whichever operating system you choose for hacking 99.99 percent of the time it will be Linux. This book is perfect as it covers all the basics of Linux. Starting with the elementary commands of Linux that you learn as soon as you start playing with Linux before moving into the realm scripting, permissions, logging, security, networking, and a little bit of python. Of course this is just a brief over view, but this book goes in depth on the usage of Linux. Describing all the basics you need to know with for Linux, this book is an absolute necessity for the beginning systems admin, hacker etc.
The final book on this list is:
“Python For Kids” by Jason R. Briggs
As you read that I am sure you are cringing and are judging me. I don’t blame you, but this book is the perfect introduction for programming as it is so simple a child can understand it. From installing Python to writing your first script (the typical hello world script) and programming a game, Jason Briggs takes you through all the basics of Python. Once you get down the basics in this book you can start making your own hacking tools and modify most pentesting tools as most are written in Python.
With all said and done these books are a great way to start learnings some basic skills necessary for cybersecurity. If you read through all of these books, follow the projects, and document them you will have a great start in industry.
Best of luck. Enjoy your start in cyber.