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Information Security Books

Fire Doesn’t Innovate: The Executive’s Practical Guide to Thriving in the Face of Evolving Cyber Risks
by Kip Boyle
Review
Breaking and Entering: the extraordinary story of a hacker called ‘Alien’
by Jeremy N. Smith
Review
A Leader’s Guide to Cybersecurity
by Jack Domet, Thomas J. Parenty
Review
Digital Cash
by Finn Brunton
The White Paper
by Satoshi Nakamoto
Review
The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World
by Paul Martin
Review
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich
Review
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn
Review
Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing
by Beth Simone Noveck
Review
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
by James Griffiths
Review
The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust
by Kevin Werbach
Review
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
Review
Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garret M. Graff
Review
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle
Review
Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion
by Brandon Valeriano, Benjamin Jensen, and Ryan C. Maness
Review
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee
Review
Security without Obscurity: A Guide to Confidentiality, Authentication, and Integrity
by J. J. Stapleton
Review
Learning Malware Analysis: Explore the concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze and investigate Windows malware
by Monnappa K A
Review
Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain
by Roger Wattenhofer
Review
Malware Data Science: Attack, Detection, and Attribution
by Joshua Saxe and Hillary Sanders
Review
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind
Review
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
by Bruce Schneier
Review
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
Review
Social Media Intelligence
by Wendy W. Moe and David A. Schweidel
Review
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by Paul Scharre
Review
Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
by Michael Chertoff
Review
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
by Matthew Salganik
Review
The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age
by David E. Sanger
Review
Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World
by Charles Arthur
Review
Machine Learning and Security
by Clarence Chio and David Freeman
Review
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Review
Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
by Susan Landau
Review
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff
Review
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
by David Gerard
Review
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (International Edition)
by Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
Review
The Turing Guide
by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson
Review
Hacking the Hacker: Learn From the Experts Who Take Down Hackers
by Roger A. Grimes
Review
Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Review
Serious Cryptography
by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Review
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
Review
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies
by Jason Fagone
Review
Code Girls
by Liza Mundy
Review
Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering (Scientific and Engineering Computation)
by Ian Foster and Dennis B. Gannon
Review
Borderless Behavior Analytics: Who’s Inside? What’re They Doing?
by Saryu Nayyar
Review
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution
by Andrew Mcafee, Erik Brynjolfsson
Review
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal MasterMind Behind the Silk Road
by Nick Bilton
Review
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan
Review
The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
by Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi
Review
The Car Hacking Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
by Craig Smith
Review
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott
Review
Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
by Gary T. Marx
Review
Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know About Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
by Brian W. Kernighan
Review
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies
by Gordon Corera
The Network Security Test Lab: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Michael Gregg
Review
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey
Review
Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
by S. Barry Cooper and J. van Leeuwen
Review
Stream Ciphers
by Andreas Klein
Review
The Mathematics of Encryption: An Elementary Introduction
by Margaret B. Cozzens and Steven J. Miller
Review
Secret History: The Story of Cryptology
by Craig P. Bauer
Review

Articles

Determining What Really Needs To Be Secured In A Chip
The Overlooked History of Women at Work
The Hidden Figures Behind Bletchley Park’s Code-Breaking Colossus
Student engineers wanted for study on mental health
Recognizing Those Making a Difference in Engineering Education
How Karat’s engineering chief gets things done and runs effective meetings by talking less
Journalists and academics explore the communication of science
Africa’s 2020 ‘top engineering innovators’ shortlisted
Science Was Her Lifeline. Now She Helps Other Girls Discover It.
Is it possible to break the stereotype of STEM?
We’re almost into the third decade of the 21st century and we’re still grading security bugs out of 10 like kids. Why?
Why Data Is So Difficult To Protect In AI Chips
Rising Energy Sector Cyber Attacks Being Repulsed By Agile Platforms, Says Honeywell Executive
Gender equality: ‘No room at the top for women scientists’
Eton master who wants pupils to learn very slowly
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic
Female students outnumber males in A-level science entries
When is it time to leave a PhD program?
Engineers must embed an ethical approach
Four Actions Engineers Can Take to Ensure Their Startup Succeeds
Most Wikipedia Profiles Are of Men. This Scientist Is Changing That.
Seven Tips on Becoming an Effective Leader
A century celebrating women engineers
What I’ve learned from teaching prisoners to think like scientists
Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary
Great polymaths of history: all-round genius
Executives on How to Succeed in Engineering
Some parting careers advice
Elon Musk Among Recipients of Stephen Hawking Communication Prize
Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034
Women engineers: are more role models the answer?
He Stopped a Global Cyberattack. Now He’s Pleading Guilty to Writing Malware.
15 top thinkers predict the biggest tech breakthroughs in our lifetime
Rising Stars: meet the young innovators who are engineering tomorrow
Preparing The Human Workforce For The Machine Workforce
In (Virtual) Defense of Democracy
Theranos and the cult of personality in science and tech
Q&A: Crypto-guru Bruce Schneier on teaching tech to lawmakers, plus privacy failures – and a call to techies to act
An exposed database tracked whether 1.8 million Chinese women were “breed ready”
How to Keep Parents From Fleeing STEM Careers
What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks People Want
FBI head Christopher Wray: We can’t let criminals hide behind encryption
MWC Barcelona 2019: Mobile Security Should Rely on the Device, Not the Human, Rivetz CEO Says
GCHQ Director calls for international cyber pact
Seven Black Inventors Whose Patents Helped Shape American Life
An Interview with William Hugh Murray
Cybersecurity: Is Medtech Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’?
White House science adviser’s first speech leaves scientists with questions
Girls Get Tech. They Just Need Others to Believe It.
How Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrupt project plans to fix the web