Sean Smith

John Marchesini

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Master the fundamentals of network security, understand what challenges you will face and learn how to combat them.

The Craft of System Security

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Facts and Speculations of Science

One Two Three … Infinity

Charlie Miller

Dion Blazakis

Dino DaiZovi

Stefan Esser

Vincenzo Iozzo

Ralf-Philip Weinmann

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Discover all the security risks and exploits that can threaten iOS-based mobile devices iOS is Apple's mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad. With the introduction of iOS5, many security issues have come to light. This book explains and discusses them all. The award-winning author team, experts in Mac and iOS security, examines the vulnerabilities and the internals of iOS to show how attacks can be mitigated. The book explains how the operating system works, its overall security architecture, and the security risks associated with it, as well as exploits, rootkits, and other payloads developed for it. Covers iOS security architecture, vulnerability hunting, exploit writing, and how iOS jailbreaks work Explores iOS enterprise and encryption, code signing and memory protection, sandboxing, iPhone fuzzing, exploitation, ROP payloads, and baseband attacks Also examines kernel debugging and exploitation Companion website includes source code and tools to facilitate your efforts iOS Hacker's Handbook arms you with the tools needed to identify, understand, and foil iOS attacks.

IOS Hacker's Handbook

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Matthew Monte

A Framework

Incorporate offense and defense for a more effective network security strategy Network Attacks and Exploitation provides a clear, comprehensive roadmap for developing a complete offensive and defensive strategy to engage in or thwart hacking and computer espionage. Written by an expert in both government and corporate vulnerability and security operations, this guide helps you understand the principles of the space and look beyond the individual technologies of the moment to develop durable comprehensive solutions. Numerous real-world examples illustrate the offensive and defensive concepts at work, including Conficker, Stuxnet, the Target compromise, and more. You will find clear guidance toward strategy, tools, and implementation, with practical advice on blocking systematic computer espionage and the theft of information from governments, companies, and individuals. Assaults and manipulation of computer networks are rampant around the world. One of the biggest challenges is fitting the ever-increasing amount of information into a whole plan or framework to develop the right strategies to thwart these attacks. This book clears the confusion by outlining the approaches that work, the tools that work, and resources needed to apply them. Understand the fundamental concepts of computer network exploitation Learn the nature and tools of systematic attacks Examine offensive strategy and how attackers will seek to maintain their advantage Understand defensive strategy, and how current approaches fail to change the strategic balance Governments, criminals, companies, and individuals are all operating in a world without boundaries, where the laws, customs, and norms previously established over centuries are only beginning to take shape. Meanwhile computer espionage continues to grow in both frequency and impact. This book will help you mount a robust offense or a strategically sound defense against attacks and exploitation. For a clear roadmap to better network security, Network Attacks and Exploitation is your complete and practical guide.

Network Attacks and Exploitation

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Thomas Limoncelli

Strata Chalup

Christina Hogan

DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

The Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2 focuses on today's fastest-growing areas of system administration: cloud computing and DevOps. For the first time, it brings together comprehensive knowledge and best practices for administering systems in the age of cloud computing, and for architecting, scaling, and operating services that perform reliably and well. The new companion volume to our best-selling Practice of System and Network Administration, it offers expert coverage of these and many other crucial topics.

The Practice of Cloud System Administration

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Brendan Gregg

Large-scale enterprise, cloud, and virtualised computing systems have introduced serious performance challenges. Now, internationally renowned performance expert Brendan Gregg has brought together proven methodologies, tools, and metrics for analysing and tuning even the most complex environments. Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud focuses on Linux® and Unix® performance, while illuminating performance issues that are relevant to all operating systems.

You'll gain deep insight into how systems work and perform, and learn methodologies for analysing and improving system and application performance. Gregg presents examples from bare-metal systems and virtualised cloud tenants running Linux-based Ubuntu®, Fedora®, CentOS, and the illumos-based Joyent® SmartOS(tm) and OmniTI OmniOS®. He systematically covers modern systems performance, including the "traditional" analysis of CPUs, memory, disks, and networks, and new areas including cloud computing and dynamic tracing. This book also helps you identify and fix the "unknown unknowns" of complex performance: bottlenecks that emerge from elements and interactions you were not aware of. The text concludes with a detailed case study, showing how a real cloud customer issue was analysed from start to finish.

Coverage includes:

 * Modern performance analysis and tuning: terminology, concepts, models, methods, and techniques
 * Dynamic tracing techniques and tools, including examples of DTrace, SystemTap, and perf
 * Kernel internals: uncovering what the OS is doing
 * Using system observability tools, interfaces, and frameworks
 * Understanding and monitoring application performance
 * Optimising CPUs: processors, cores, hardware threads, caches, interconnects, and kernel scheduling
 * Memory optimisation: virtual memory, paging, swapping, memory architectures, busses, address spaces, and allocators
 * File system I/O, including caching
 * Storage devices/controllers, disk I/O workloads, RAID, and kernel I/O
 * Network-related performance issues: protocols, sockets, interfaces, and physical connections
 * Performance implications of OS and hardware-based virtualisation, and new issues encountered with cloud computing
 * Benchmarking: getting accurate results and avoiding common mistakes

This guide is indispensable for anyone who operates enterprise or cloud environments: system, network, database, and web admins; developers; and other professionals. For students and others new to optimisation, it also provides exercises reflecting Gregg's extensive instructional experience.

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

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Douglas R. Hofstadter

Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

Metamagical Themas

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Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.
 
Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations.


The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century.
 
"Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work." --Wall Street Journal

The Soul of a New Machine

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Win32 Multithreaded Programming

Michael Hale Ligh

Andrew Case

Jamie Levy

Aaron Walters

Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory

Memory forensics provides cutting edge technology to help investigate digital attacks Memory forensics is the art of analyzing computer memory (RAM) to solve digital crimes. As a follow-up to the best seller Malware Analyst's Cookbook, experts in the fields of malware, security, and digital forensics bring you a step-by-step guide to memory forensics—now the most sought after skill in the digital forensics and incident response fields. Beginning with introductory concepts and moving toward the advanced, The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory is based on a five day training course that the authors have presented to hundreds of students. It is the only book on the market that focuses exclusively on memory forensics and how to deploy such techniques properly. Discover memory forensics techniques: How volatile memory analysis improves digital investigations Proper investigative steps for detecting stealth malware and advanced threats How to use free, open source tools for conducting thorough memory forensics Ways to acquire memory from suspect systems in a forensically sound manner The next era of malware and security breaches are more sophisticated and targeted, and the volatile memory of a computer is often overlooked or destroyed as part of the incident response process. The Art of Memory Forensics explains the latest technological innovations in digital forensics to help bridge this gap. It covers the most popular and recently released versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac, including both the 32 and 64-bit editions.

The Art of Memory Forensics

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Alessandro Rubini

Jonathan Corbet

Provides "hands-on" information on writing device drivers for the Linux system, with particular focus on the features of the 2.4 kernel and its implementation

Linux Device Drivers

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The World at the End of Time

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

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Concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics

The Emperor’s  New Mind

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Chains of Command

Star Trek the Original Series

Prime Directive

The Genesis Machine

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Science

5 Lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems

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Artemis Fowl the Opal Deception

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Star Trek The Lost Years

A Novel

Serving as a mercenary in a distasteful war, Takeshi Kovacs joins a covert team that aims to secure a coveted archeological prize, an endeavor that ensnares him in a web of treachery and betrayal unlike any he has experienced before. By the author of Altered Carbon. Original.

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