Text book:

  1. Edward Skoudis , Tom Liston Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses (2nd Edition)

Reference books:

  1. Neil Daswani, Christoph Kern and Anita Kesavan Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to know, Apress, February 16, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1590597842
  2. Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz Practical UNIX and Internet Security, Third Edition O’Reilly (February 2003) ISBN: 0-596-00323-4
  3. Ross Anderson Security Engineering, John Wiley and Sons (2001), ISBN: 0-471-38922-6