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Rating System:

| 😑 - Awful | 😠 - Bad | 😐 - Fine | πŸ˜ƒ - Good | 😁 - Exceptional |

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books listed in chronological order from last read to first read

  • 😐 - Surveillance State - Josh Chin, Liza Lin
  • 😁 - Dark Wire - Joseph Cox
  • 😁 - Means of Control - Byron Tau
  • πŸ˜ƒ - Surveillance Valley - Yasha Levine
  • πŸ˜ƒ - The Ransomware Hunting Team - Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
  • 😠 - CRACK99 - David Locke Hall
  • πŸ˜ƒ - The Spy Who Couldn't Spell - Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
  • 😐 - The Fifth Domain - Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
  • 😁 - Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks - Scott J. Shapiro
  • 😐 - If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable - Mikko Hypponen
  • πŸ˜ƒ - The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War - Jonna Mendez, Antonio J. J. Mendez
  • 😠 - The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals - Maxie Reynolds
  • 😐 - Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War - Fred Kaplan
  • πŸ˜ƒ - We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency - Parmy Olson
  • 😐 - Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World - Bruce Schneier
  • 😁 - Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency - Andy Greenberg
  • πŸ˜ƒ - The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election - Malcolm Nance
  • 😐 - This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race - Nicole Perlroth
  • 😁 - The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War - Geoff White
  • 😠 - Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence - Amy B. Zegart
  • 😠 - The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI - Ben Buchanan, Andrew Imbrie
  • 😐 - Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World - Joseph Menn
  • πŸ˜ƒ - Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door - Brian Krebs
  • 😁 - The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage - Cliff Stoll
  • 😁 - Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon - Kim Zetter
  • 😑 - Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
  • 😁 - The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics - Ben Buchanan
  • 😁 - Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers - Andy Greenberg
  • 😁 - Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare - Thomas Rid
  • 😐 - Uncanny Valley: A Memoir - Anna Wiener
  • 😐 - The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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