Reddit mentions of Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet

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FREE TIME/FUN/MISC.
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of War
Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond thanks sjhill
A Quarter Century of UNIX thanks sjhill
A Reading List For the Self-Taught Computer Scientist thanks zinver
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk thanks segamix
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable thanks AgonistAgent
Snow Crash thanks AgonistAgent
Cryptonomicon thanks Mirple

Oh you wanted books. For some reason I thought you wanted things to learn about, like you didn't think it was that easy or something.

The Art of Deception.

Pretty much anything by this guy.

This book gives you an insight to how the good guys go about fixing things once they go bad.

Metasploit is the novice's wet dream, as it's pretty easy to get started with and opens up a world of sophisticated exploits which wouldn't normally be available to someone new to the world of hacking.

Those are some books that might not get listed elsewhere, simply because they don't all literally tell you how to hack, as much as give you some idea as to what hacking means from different perspectives.

Edit: Reposting some of the other guy's books as he seems to think linking to publicly available materials is going to make some person on Reddit the next LulzSec 'mastermind' or something.

Hacking Exposed, Anti-Hacker Toolkit, Practical Malware Analysis, The Rootkit Arsenal, Steal This Computer Book.

You're not going to be a l33t h4x0r just by reading a few books, but you won't not be, either. :D

Standard Disclaimer: 20+ years in IT, now teaching an 18 month course in IT, covers A+, MCP Windows 7, and Net+ Certs

Net+ is easy enough to pass, whether or not you know the material.

HR peeps do not seem to know this, but Higher ups in the IT field do.

It sounds like you actually want to Learn the material so I am going to agree with everyone else and suggest you take a CCNA course at a local Community College. I would add that you might start by reading a good NET+ study guide for all the background info that you may not yet have. When you study the Cisco stuff you are going to want actual hardware to play with.

for a fascinating read check out:

http://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Computer-Book-4-0/dp/1593271050