Humble Bundle - Cybersecurity books

Started by SimonV, July 18, 2017, 04:21:33 AM

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SimonV

July 18, 2017, 04:21:33 AM
Got this in the mail today, thought it was worth sharing:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-wiley

deanwebb

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July 18, 2017, 07:12:50 AM Last Edit: July 18, 2017, 08:21:17 AM by deanwebb
Saw this mentioned on Schneier's blog, looks like a great deal!

Such a great deal, in fact, that I bought it!  :smug:

I may not want *all* the books, but I'd pay at least $5 for 4 of the books, so going in at $15+ was a great deal and now I got a nice digital library.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
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Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

SimonV

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July 18, 2017, 08:11:41 AM
Do you know any of those books? The only ones that look interesting to me are the social engineering ones and the CEH guide. Could use some reading during the vacation, although I have plenty of unread books already.

deanwebb

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July 18, 2017, 08:25:42 AM
Quote from: SimonV on July 18, 2017, 08:11:41 AM
Do you know any of those books? The only ones that look interesting to me are the social engineering ones and the CEH guide. Could use some reading during the vacation, although I have plenty of unread books already.

CISSP study guide is always nice to have handy around the house. Some of those chapters are a real cure for insomnia! :D

Several books by Schneier in there that look good. I'm not a programmer, but I do plan to skim over the programming books to get a big picture about what is going on. If I don't understand something, I let it whoosh overhead. But, if I get into a conversation about that topic, then those terms I read suddenly start to come together and I find that I can understand more than the average networking bear about those topics.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

SofaKing

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July 18, 2017, 11:55:55 AM
Thanks for the link!!  I've never been a big e-book reader but this is a pretty good deal.  What is the best format to download these in?  I'm guessing PDF?
Networking -  You can talk about us but you can't talk without us!

deanwebb

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July 18, 2017, 12:08:30 PM
Quote from: SofaKing on July 18, 2017, 11:55:55 AM
Thanks for the link!!  I've never been a big e-book reader but this is a pretty good deal.  What is the best format to download these in?  I'm guessing PDF?

I downloaded MOBI for my Kindle reader on my Android. both .mobi and .prc are readable as Mobi files.
For EPUB, I used Calibre to convert to MOBI and did just fine. I plan to read the PDF file as a PDF on my PC, no real way to get it to convert to MOBI nicely without experimentation.

Calibre can also manage ebook transfers from PC to device, so that makes it a handy thing to have, indeed.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

SofaKing

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July 18, 2017, 12:10:07 PM
Thanks Dean!
Networking -  You can talk about us but you can't talk without us!
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