what books for a beginner

[hacker95]

Hey guys what are the best books for a beginner to read on hacking ??

[ande]

To be honest, I wouldn't recommend any of those so-called hacking books. Just learn computer logic and go from there. In other words, learn to code. Then choose a security area and read online from there.

[Stackprotector]

What are you trying to learn... hacking?? ,

[noob]

Depend what you want,if you wana be a hacker chose a programing language and go for it,be creative and create some usefull things.
And if you wana be a cracker its another story.You wana crack web apps?Then go learn php,http,test web applications,find your way....and its a easier cracker way....
If you wana find wholes and write exploits its a hard cracker way,take years of learning...
What it will be

[iMorg]

The FreeBSD handbooks are a good start for unix.

[NC009]

*Hacking Exposed 6*

is a good foundation to learn the concept (fingerprinting, scanning, enumeration, exploiting, and evading)...but like the other guys said...if you want to craft your own exploits...you are going to have to learn a programming language, shellcode, etc.

[ande]

*Hacking Exposed 6*

is a good foundation to learn the concept (fingerprinting, scanning, enumeration, exploiting, and evading)

I beg to differ, its a confusing book. I dont agree with the method of learning hacking.

[xXSucreXx]

most books are good.. but start wit the basics !

[Dropchop]

Steal this Computer Book 4.0 is pretty neat and it comes with a CD that contains some basic tools.

[BigE]

You can go to exploit-db.com and do a search for "papers" on a specific subject if you like. Everything from exploit writing of different forms to programming tutorials to target recon and beyond can be found on there, and are often written unprofessionally by people who are quite knowledgeable.

[FuyuKitsune]

Just learn computer logic and go from there. In other words, learn to code. Then choose a security area and read online from there.

You can go to exploit-db.com and do a search for "papers" on a specific subject if you like. Everything from exploit writing of different forms to programming tutorials to target recon and beyond can be found on there, and are often written unprofessionally by people who are quite knowledgeable.

I agree with these. Pick an area and study the topics individually. The only good hacking books are the ones that go in-depth on specific topics, and still there are few of those that are good, and the rest are too brief for you to really learn anything. You can find field-specific books when you have some basics down but I've found tuts and whitepapers more practically useful than any book (except perhaps Cisco's networking books and Hacking: The Art of Exploitation).

[xzid]

fuyu, love the picture: arctic fox. Shitload of em where I used to work(nunavut, canada). I had nice pictures, one of them two owls are about to rip the fox the shreads! but I seem to missing a laptop..? Srsly I can't find it, if I do I'll show.

About post: to learn its tech info, or papers. Books are for langs and more complex things.

[1Mirek]

forget about hacking stuff, start with programming languages, I would recommend you Perl, once you learn him sky is the limit