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A curated reading list for security, networking and systems. Each card links to the book's official page or a place to find a legitimate copy.

Cryptography and Network Security

William Stallings, 6th Edition

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Computer Security: Principles and Practice

Stallings and Brown, 3rd Edition

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Blue Team Field Manual (BTFM)

Alan White and Ben Clark

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Red Team Field Manual (RTFM)

Ben Clark

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Hacking the Hacker

Roger A. Grimes, Wiley

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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach

Kurose and Ross. Official companion site with slides and labs

Companion site

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

Bryant and O'Hallaron (CS:APP), Carnegie Mellon

Official page

Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design

Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg and Blair, 5th Edition

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Fundamentals of Database Systems

Elmasri and Navathe, 7th Edition

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