Reddit mentions of The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System

It really depends on what niche you're looking on covering. It's difficult, I feel, to brush up on "infosec" to any level of practical proficiency without focusing on a few subsets. Based on your interests, I would recommend the following books.

General Hacking:

Hacking Exposed

The Art of Exploitation

The Art of Deception



Intrusion Detection / Incident Response:

Network Flow Analysis

The Tao of Network Security Monitoring

Practical Intrusion Analysis

Real Digital Forensics


Reverse Engineering:

Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

The Ida Pro Book

Malware Analyst Cookbook

Malware Forensics



Digital Forensics:

File System Forensic Analysis

Windows Forensic Analysis

Real Digital Forensics

The Rootkit Arsenal


Hope this helps. If you're a University student, you might have access to Safari Books Online, which has access to almost all of these books, and more. You can also purchase a personal subscription for like $23 a month. It's a bit pricey, but they have an awesome library of technical books.

This pdf has some great info on systems administration

This book was a great read. Violent Python

This book goes very deep into exploit development with python in windows environments Gray Hat python

Same author as above, I have not read yet, but it is on my todo list Black Hat python

Heavily C based, but a great explanation of x86 and low level systems Rootkit Arsenal

You should just order this book imho.
http://www.amazon.com/Rootkit-Arsenal-Escape-Evasion-Corners/dp/1598220616/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1303542136&sr=8-2

Its more recent, covers more techniques and is extremely in depth and it has all the sourcecode in the back of the book.

• Malware Analyst's CookBook is pretty good, lots of examples of techniques with example code.
  
• The Rootkit Arsenal is also supposedly really good.
  
• The Shellcoders Handbook (2nd edition) will help you get up to speed with mainstream exploitation techniques.
  
• Linux Kernel Development is a short read and describes the architecture of the Linux Kernel. Also explains many basic Operating System concepts.
  
• UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition) introduced IP/IPv6/IPSec/TCP/UDP/SCTP as well as the POSIX Socket API.
  
• Cannot stress this enough, pickup your choice of a C/C++/Java/C#/Python/Ruby/etc book. Having a solid understanding of a programming language will make life much easier.